Examining Quotes
165 quotes by 155 authors
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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
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
— Dan Millman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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