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«Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.»
Author: Stewart Alsop
| Keywords:
essentials, examined, rearrange, rearranged, rearranging, The Sequence
«I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.»
Author: Joseph Heller
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Choice,
Decision,
Military
| Keywords:
examined, military service, unfit
«Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.»
«And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.»
«And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, / Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: / No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.»
«I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.»
«And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air, / The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.»
«If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?»
«In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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almost, at issue, authorities, beliefs, By belief, case, cased, convictions, examination, examined, examines, gotten, hand, have-not, his case, issue, issuing, politics, questions, religion, second, seconded, second hand, taken, take issue, themselves
«It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
examined, mortal, terrestrial, torch, torches
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