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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. — Ferdinand de Saussure
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of… — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a… — Willard Gaylin
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of… — William Friedkin
The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to… — Louis de Broglie
Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness.… — Terence McKenna
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels… — Cornel West
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
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged. — William Henry Harrison
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
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… — Dalai Lama
Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their… — Joseph Muscat
Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination. — Pythagoras
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
Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help. — Tom Duff
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,… — Frances Wright
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… — Marcus Aurelius
I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never… — Pierre Trudeau
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes. — Richard Gere
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will… — Emma Goldman
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. — Charles Caleb Colton
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… — Vera Farmiga
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say… — Ronald Fisher
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more… — Peter Hammill

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