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• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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• Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

  Richard Russo

  Past, Focus, Odd

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• I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Thinking, Long

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• Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Risk, Quality, Needs

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

  George Scialabba

  Powerful, Should, Institutions

  Source: thenewinquiry.com

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• It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfishness, Disguise, Turns

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Men, Iraq

  Speech Opposing the War in Iraq at Federal Plaza, delivered 2 October 2002, Chicago, Illinois

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• Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, World, Riddle

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.338, Princeton University Press

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• The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

  Scott Ritter

  Military, War, Tools

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• The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

  George Smoot

  Bangs, Events, Imagine

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• The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Miracle, Development

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.

  Virginia Woolf

  Lonely, Heart, Moon

  Virginia Woolf (1976). “The Waves”, Chatto & Windus

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• As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

  Mike Rogers

  Animal, Agriculture, Pests

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• Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

  Henry Giroux

  Data, People, Gathering

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Real, Mean

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• Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

  Andy Warhol

  Queens, Women, People

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.

  Mary McCarthy

  Cities, Venice, Doubt

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Cities, San Francisco, Friendly

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• By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Imitation, Raised, Contrast

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1860). “The Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy”

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• No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

  Edward Livingston

  Abuse, Suffering, Slavery

  Edward Livingston (2010). “A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana”, p.10, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.

  Richard Armitage

  Ideas, Iraq, Special

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• The inspectors also found Iraq had developed effective means for dispersing these materials: unmanned aerial vehicles, spray devices, special munitions. We don't know where any of it is. And the last 60 days of new inspections have turned up no additional information that could allay any concerns about this military capability.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, Mean, Iraq

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• Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

  Marianne Moore

  Real, Garden, Imagination

  'Poetry' (1935)

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• In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.

  Shimon Peres

  Country, Iran, Order

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• Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

  William Golding

  Exercise, Simple, Long

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