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• If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Dignity, Instinct

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

  Archibald F. Bennett

  Historical, Ancestry, May

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• Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Loss, Self, Oneness

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.76, Macmillan

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• The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is essentially the same thing. I just live my life with eyes and ears perhaps a little bit wider open than some people. Whatever bothers me or seems off kilter or in need of parody-or on a serious subject, in need of examination-in the past I had done a sequence about it. Now I write a column about it.

  Peter Funt

  Art, Eye, Writing

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• There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.

  David Hume

  Intelligent, Perception Of Beauty, Judgement

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• We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  People, Answers, Want

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• Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

  Elena Ferrante

  Moments, Pleasure, Happy Moments

  Elena Ferrante (2013). “The Story of a New Name: Neapolitan Novels, Book Two”, p.419, Penguin

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• My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Anger, Together, Ignoble

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• Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.

  Bernard Haisch

  Cutting, Information, Evidence

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• If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.

  William H. Ginsburg

  Lying, Order, Deceit

  "Lewinsky Attorney Says His 'Media Blitz' Over", www.cnn.com. February 1, 1998.

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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, Form, Cautious

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• Oversoul Seven grimaced at Cyprus and began the examination. 'Let's see,' he said, 'In Earth terms, using an analogy, I'm a man on Wednesday and Friday, a woman on Sunday and Thursday, and have the rest of the time off for independent study.

  Jane Roberts

  Friday, Independent, Sunday

  "The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time".

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• Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.

  Adam Thirlwell

  Real, Sarcasm, Space

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• Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.

  Judith Viorst

  Character, Positive Thinking, Simple

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• Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

  Frances Wright

  Mind, Church, Leisure

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.46

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• Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

  Tom Duff

  Shells, Littles, Helping

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• Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

  Catherine Crier

  Rude, Awakening, Individual

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• Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

  Pythagoras

  Mistake, Failure, Trying

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• Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

  Dalai Lama

  Iron, Negative, Rust

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.282, Penguin Books India

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• Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Simple, Interesting, Humanity

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• The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Beauty, Increase, Criteria

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• I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Thinking, Evil, Humanity

  "Kailash Satyarthi's crusade to save childhood continues; 60 mn still need him" by Kumkum Das Gupta, www.hindustantimes.com. October 10, 2014.

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• What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Exercise, Opportunity

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Confused, Self

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Closing words, 1968.

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• Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.

  Kingsley Amis

  Cheer, Believe, Reality

  Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics

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