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The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid… — Richard Selzer
It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first… — Andre Breton
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for… — Os Guinness
Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important… — Duane Elgin
You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you. — Russell Brand
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. — Samuel Johnson
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of… — Jeffrey Wright
We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over. — John Bevere
Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to… — James Hervey
What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is… — Carl Sagan
One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in… — Alexander Rodchenko
In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at… — Terry McMillan
The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose nucleic… — Erwin Chargaff
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. — Jeremy Rifkin
The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We… — Edith Hamilton
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and… — Richard Mitchell
Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the… — Ronald Ross
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled… — Barbara Kingsolver
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. — Nicole Kidman
I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts… — Lancelot Law Whyte
Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied. — Louise Rennison

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