Examining Quotes - Page 7

• A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Justice, Good Man

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.283

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• I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.

  Michael Pitt

  Kids, Ink, Different

  Interview With Martin Scorsese, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Trying, Twelve

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.80, Penguin

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• In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks."

  Kenneth Grahame

  Beer, Moles, Labels

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

  Glenn Close

  Travel, Heart, Adventure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.

  Paul Dirac

  Good Luck, Science, Mathematical Equations

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• It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

  Dan Millman

  Life, May, Action

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• It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.

  Johannes Kepler

  Knowledge, Eye, Science

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• Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Wise, Science, Water

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• Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away

  Chanakya

  Country, Self, People

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• Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Goal, Painting, Humans

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• The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

  C. S. Lewis

  Way, Satisfaction, Pleasure

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• Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Tolerance, Examination, Form

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• For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, People, Labels

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.40, Routledge

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• You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

  Mary Antin

  Children, Two Sides, Noses

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Moving, Shadow, Trying

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016

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• Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.

  Byllye Avery

  Religious, Perspective, Women's Health

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• The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

  William Winwood Reade

  Curiosity, Expansion, Inquiry

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

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• If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

  Bill Burr

  Country, East, Chance

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years.

  Jane Goodall

  Grief, Believe, Years

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

  Henry Fielding

  Fear, Justice, Faults

  Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott (1831). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, p.91

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• Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

  Isaac Watts

  Believe, Men, Parent

  Isaac Watts (1806). “Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences”, p.174

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• Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, War, Thinking

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• The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Government, Nsa

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