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• She said she thought it [ letter "C"] meant alphabetical order. But nobody bothered to ask did she ever see an "A," a "B," a "D," or an "E." If I were cross-examining her I darn well would have asked her that question.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Order, Letters, Said

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.

  Sarah MacLean

  Hurt, Reality, Belief

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• I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

  James Franco

  Memories, Ideas, Interesting

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• I understand that and I have had very candid discussions with Saudi leaders in the past. I respect their culture and their heritage and their traditions, but I think that they now, as they move forward, will have to start examining these traditions and these practices to see whether or not change is appropriate.

  Colin Powell

  Moving, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.

  Adam Ross

  Character, Trying, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a business you should probably be examining, hey, is this the type of message we want to send?

  Chris Kluwe

  Hey, Want, Messages

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Thinking, Keys

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

  Marina Abramovic

  Past, Community, Reason

  "Marina Abramović, Immaterial Girl". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2013.

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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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• 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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• The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

  Robert Trout

  Philosophy, Example, Republic

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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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• 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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• 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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• The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Class, Supposing That

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• But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over the climate-were changed or deleted after the scientist charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text.

  Frederick Seitz

  Keys, Finals, Energy

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Way, Satisfaction, Pleasure

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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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