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• There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Spiritual, Self, People

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

  C.E. Morgan

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

  Anthony Daniels

  Self, Age, Use

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• To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Self, Envy, Examination

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• Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

  John Updike

  Self, Fiction, Examination

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.92, Random House

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• Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

  David Brock

  Journey, Sight, Self

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• My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Self, Wish

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• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  Balthus

  Struggle, Self, Criticism

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• Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.

  Sylvia Plath

  Crush, Girl, Kissing

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• It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?

  Colman McCarthy

  Moving, Ocean, Caring

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• Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

  Bell Hooks

  Commitment, Reflection, Self

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• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Running, Book, Writing

  "J. Michael Straczynski’s Superman: Outsider with a vulnerable heart". Interview with Jevon Phillips, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 5, 2012.

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• I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

  Richard Gere

  Thinking, Self, Examination

  "The Gere hunter". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2002.

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• The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Self, Different

  "Vera Farmiga's Unforgettable Role". PARADE interview, parade.com. November 6, 2008.

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• This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

  Stendhal

  Thinking, Unusual Things, Self

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• ... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

  Robin Morgan

  Book, Self, Tears

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.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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• In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

  Tom Chatfield

  Self, Age, Connections

  Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Space, Omission

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell”, p.271

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• Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Self, Long, Examination

  Hans Georg Gadamer, J. E. Malpas, Ulrich von Arnswald, Jens Kertscher (2002). “Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer”, p.315, MIT Press

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• The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

  Jo Coudert

  Confidence, Quiet Moments, Self

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• With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

  Mitsuo Fuchida

  War, Self, Taught Us

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• Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religious, Mean, Self

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