Best Examined Quotes
200 Examined quotes by 181 unique authors
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Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from…
— Robert P. Crease
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Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall…
— Herbert C. Brown
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Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny…
— D. James Kennedy
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Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open…
— Unknown Author
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first…
— Thomas Nagel
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It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene,…
— Aaron Siskind
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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come…
— Victor Hugo
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Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve…
— Unknown Author
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The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined.…
— Vance Packard
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...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not…
— Yvon Chouinard
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When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so…
— Robert Aris Willmott
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They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what…
— Joe E. Lewis
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Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.
— Angelo Dundee
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The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an…
— Barbara Kruger
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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and…
— Buzz Aldrin
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If some want to misuse the generosity of our nation, and re-examine what was previously examined, they should know the fire of the anger of…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
— Iris Murdoch
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I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible…
— B.F. Skinner
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Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
— Napoleon Hill
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My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort of public capacity-many…
— Charles Spurgeon
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There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I have…
— James Randi
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