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Tag Name "Examine" (304)

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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
Samuel Johnson
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I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.
Joseph Addison
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Go in all simplicity do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.
Saint Francis de Sales
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What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
Carl Sagan
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I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
Charles Caleb Colton
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It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense for the American people. These are American resources and American treasures, and we need to make sure we're providing the right kind of protection, oversight and stewardship of these resources for the American people.
Ken Salazar
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When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
Confucius
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Examine the nature of hatred you will find that it is no more than a thought. When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world must enter into other men's lives must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street must walk through the world and his mirror.
William Baziotes
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Being a woman in 2016 if very different, imagine being a woman 20 years ago, and when we talk about consent, maybe 20 years from now we'll know things about consent and examine it from a different perspective than we are now.
Nate Parker
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Walter Scott
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Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
Confucius
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
Malcolm Gladwell
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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
Robert A. Heinlein
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To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.
Jonathan Edwards
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Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.
Frances Wright
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
J. J. Abrams
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A loss is a loss, examine why you lost. A win is a win, evaluate what made you successful.
Chris Hanburger
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But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
Confucius
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The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
Terry Gross
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