Examining Quotes

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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a… — J. J. Abrams
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. — Ambrose Bierce
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem… — Octavia Butler
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
If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially… — Roger Babson
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… — Thomas a Kempis
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!… — Kenneth Grahame
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
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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… — Paul Dirac
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. — Dan Millman
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.… — Johannes Kepler
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… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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… — Karl Pearson
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud.… — Dan Barker
I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one… — Christopher Phillips
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which… — Henry De la Beche
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… — Frederick Seitz
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed… — James Madison

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