“ The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ”
- William Winwood Reade- Copy
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“ The president should be, in my opinion, reviewing and analyzing and putting some deep perspective into who's around him at the White House. ”
- Chuck Hagel- Copy
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“ Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
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“ This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones. ”
- Desmond Morris- Copy
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“ But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. ”
- Clive Barker- Copy
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“ Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examining it is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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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 the spirit in which you are rendering it. ”
- Roger Babson- Copy
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“ If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations. ”
- Karl Albrecht- Copy
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“ Deliberation: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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“ And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen… ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
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