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Letter "E" » examining
«It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.»
Author: Ann Beattie
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Diaries
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boring, cosmic, diaries, examining, order of the day, speculate, speculating, vacillate, vacillating
«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.»
Author: Roger Babson
(Author, Business Forecaster)
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carefully, correcting, examining, rendering, The Service
«The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, domain, domains, evolution, examining, forcing, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, inquiry, straitjacket
«In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.»
«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 to good purpose»
«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.»
«If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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and others, by me, discussions, disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, Every Little Thing, examining, ionizing, keep quiet, livable, on that, persuaded, The God
«I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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alike, Christianity, examining, fables, feature, founded, mythologies, mythology, particular, recently, redeeming, redeems, superstition, superstitions
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