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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. -- H. L. Mencken
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. -- Ronald Reagan
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. -- Ronald Fisher
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. -- Julien Benda
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me. -- Paul Nurse
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. -- Emma Goldman
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent. -- Pete Seeger
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres. -- Peter Hammill
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. -- Peter Hammill
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within. -- M. Scott Peck
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. -- Mencius
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. -- Robert Motherwell
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. -- Edward Carpenter
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. -- Errol Morris
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception. -- Robert Motherwell
A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket. -- Bill Dedman
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination -- Mark Twain
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. -- Blaise Pascal
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own -- Herodotus
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. -- Lafcadio Hearn
There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward. -- Jeremy Northam
I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you. -- Jim Bakker
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. -- Ronald Fisher
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. -- Aristotle
Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey. -- Solomon Northup
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles. -- Robin Morgan
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. -- Frederick Sanger
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this. -- Margaret Atwood
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior. -- William Friedkin
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person. -- Miguel Syjuco
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner. -- Robert P. McCulloch
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. -- Mark Lloyd
I walked into the wrong examination room. I'm bad enough at facial recognition... I saw more that day than I cared to. Fortunately, I didn't recognize her from that angle, whoever it was, and I didn't ask. I'm off to a rocky start on the road to fatherhood, but I got a free view. -- Simon Helberg
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda -- Heywood C. Broun
Ability is not always gauged by examination. -- Indira Gandhi
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. -- H. L. Mencken
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it -- Samuel Johnson
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. -- Samuel Johnson
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes. -- Richard Gere
Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination. -- Joseph de Maistre
Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy. -- Richard Doll
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. -- Richard Cushing
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination. -- Charlotte Lennox
A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless. -- Drea De Matteo
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action -- Jonathan Edwards
Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom -- M. Scott Peck
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. -- David Hume
Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration. -- Tom Hanks
The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination. -- George Polya
Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination. -- Pythagoras
Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination. -- Terence McKenna
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action. -- Immanuel Kant
A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves. -- David Bronstein
At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue. -- Josemaria Escriva
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination. -- Margaret E. Knight
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger. -- William James Mayo
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. -- John Updike
Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight. -- David Brock
Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws -- John Adams
Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on. -- Trent Reznor
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible. -- Elena Ferrante
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. -- Simon van der Meer
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged. -- William Henry Harrison
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. -- Bertrand Russell
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell. -- Walter Alexander Raleigh
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear -- Tom Stoppard
Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help. -- Tom Duff
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social. -- David E. Kelley
Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn." -- Nancy Reagan
Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments. -- Sebastian Copeland
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice. -- Mark Udall
The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs. -- Stanley Cavell
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. -- James Hutton
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. -- Tiffany Madison
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. -- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. -- Louis Nizer
To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty. -- Adam Smith
...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. -- James M. Barrie
Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago -- Siegbert Tarrasch
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle... -- Balthus
Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified. -- Marvin J. Ashton
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. -- Francois Fenelon
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. -- Trent Reznor
Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv. -- Finley Peter Dunne
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever. -- Nicholas Sparks
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be. -- M. Russell Ballard
Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity. -- Madonna Ciccone
Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy. -- Pankaj Mishra
There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry. -- Archibald F. Bennett
Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. " -- Henry Rosovsky
We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes? -- Laura Mullen
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. -- Balthus
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Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination. -- Catherine Crier
An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West. -- Sir John Woodroffe
Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God. -- Arthur Tappan Pierson
Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry. -- Quentin Crisp
My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly. -- Franz Grillparzer
The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print. -- Daniel Starch
It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed. -- Sai Baba
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function. -- Theodor Adorno
I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils -- Kailash Satyarthi
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did. -- Jay McInerney
There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains. -- Salman Rushdie

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