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• When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier.
  Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Mean, Deep Thought, Levels

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• I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you work alone. Movies have to go under so much scrutiny. A stand-up special is a vision, and a movie is a consensus in a lot of ways.

  Chris Rock

  Thinking, Political, Vision

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You mock those who blindly follow the majority...turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm that they would gladly cease breathing if it were suggested to them that inhalation was a form of conformity; for they deserve just as much scrutiny and ridicule.

  Demetri Martin

  Breathing, Majority, Attention

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• I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.

  John Wooden

  Player, Tests, Able

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success”, p.57, Revell

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• Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Missing, Democracy

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• Let's make the haystack smaller. Let's say for a while, until we can figure out who's coming, who's going, and who's overstayed their visa, let's have extra scrutiny and figure out what's going on, because there's a whole segment of the world that is intent on sending people here to attack us.

  Rand Paul

  People, World, Figures

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.

  John Malkovich

  People, Littles, Pressure

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the job of an actor is to invite scrutiny, but with that, the people around them have to nurture that and put them in an environment where they feel safe and they feel like they can risk something.

  Eric Balfour

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain campaign to try to change the trajectory of the 2008 presidential race and the initial launch was very successful. She didn`t withstand the scrutiny very well though and the close questioning.

  Rachel Maddow

  Moving, Successful, Race

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

  Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

  Inspirational, Integrity, Leader

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• It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid its use altogether, as it is likely to be twisted in public discourse to demonise the enemies of the established order, while exempting state violence from legal and moral scrutiny.

  Richard A. Falk

  Order, Enemy, Violence

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

  Stephen Hawking

  Government, Abuse, Glare

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• Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Firsts, Preference

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I was very proud to be part of the Million Man March. I think it's one of the best things that I ever did. Just the fact that, you know, at the time I didn't pay close enough scrutiny to some of the other things that he was saying. You know, that's something I just live and learn.

  Keith Ellison

  Thinking, Men, Facts

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" With David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, House, Anxiety

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4304, Delphi Classics

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• There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in 2013 when we were deciding whether to file a brief in the first gay marriage case, the Perry against Hollingsworth case. That was a weighty decision about whether the United States government was going to come in and say that heightened scrutiny ought to apply and some state bans on same-sex marriage ought to be unconstitutional. And that was the one time in my tenure where I thought I ought not make this decision without talking to the president.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Sex, Gay, Government

  Source: www.slate.com

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• If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

  Bill Walton

  Team, School, Eight

  "Seven of the Dirtiest Teams in College Basketball History" By Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2010.

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• No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.

  Robert A. Burton

  Good Life, Humility, Reflection

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.162, Macmillan

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• Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.

  Donald Trump

  Book, Thinking, Different

  "The Many Times Donald Trump Has Lied About His Mob Connections" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. September 23, 2016.

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• The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Meaningful, Creating, Attention

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I think actually under scrutiny, Hillary's [Clinton] promotion of equal wages at poverty level and of healthcare for children but not for their families, of childcare when there are no jobs, it just doesn't cut it. I think women need a real agenda of justice because women are care-givers, because women are instruments of justice for our families and for our communities.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• All the proffered evidence that America was attacked by Muslims on 9/11, when subjected to critical scrutiny, appears to have been fabricated.

  David Ray Griffin

  America, Evidence, Critical

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• And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives to be taken over, or at least in allowing that kind of scrutiny into our lives. We've given up a little bit of that, and this is the existential nightmare of all of that. What happens when you suddenly find out that people have been watching you, with a purpose?

  Remi Aubuchon

  Taken, Ideas, People

  "Executive Producer Remi Aubuchon Exclusive Interview PERSONS UNKNOWN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

  Keisha Castle-Hughes

  Growing Up, Silly, Able

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• If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Photography, Art, Powerful

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