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Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence. -- Lee Strobel
Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I be showing my films in theaters or just think about getting them out online? There were other issues, too. -- Astra Taylor
The examined life is no picnic. -- Robert Fulghum
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. -- Victor Hugo
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. -- Samuel Goldwyn
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. -- Joseph Heller
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. -- Anna Freud
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. -- Chinua Achebe
I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined. -- Ann Coulter
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose. -- Mary Antin
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined. -- Gilbert White
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. -- Stewart Alsop
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions. -- Nathan Myhrvold
They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses. -- Joe E. Lewis
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. -- Colin Quinn
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. -- Pontius Pilate
Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education. -- Grover Norquist
We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past. -- Heinz Fischer
I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years. -- James Randi
My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn't something to be constantly examined or picked apart. -- Steve Carell
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part. -- Jeffrey Wright
I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future. -- Jimmy Carter
Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. -- Nick Clegg
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. -- Russell Brand
The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals. -- David Suzuki
I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives. -- Paul Harding
Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost. -- F. Sionil Jose
I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws. -- Anne Sexton
The examined life is the only life worth living. -- Socrates
I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks. -- Louis Leakey
Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons. -- Masaoka Shiki
The life which is not examined is not worth living. -- Plato
I believe that the Cuban Adjustment Act must be re-examined. -- Marco Rubio
Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined. -- Angelo Dundee
Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it. -- T. S. Eliot
Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined. -- Ellen Goodman
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined. -- Prince Philip
The soul should be examined in the light of other souls. -- A. D. Gordon
Anybody who trusts an electronic voting machine should have their head examined. -- Michael Ruppert
Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good. -- Theognis of Megara
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined. -- Honore de Balzac
Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied. -- Louise Rennison
The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class. -- Edgar Friedenberg
Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking. -- Donita K. Paul
Emotions of the sould should be watched, regulary examined, and kept well balanced. -- Roger N. Walsh
Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored. -- Tim Fargo
I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined. -- Jane Ace
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture. -- Susan Choi
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings. -- Denis Diderot
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. -- Iris Murdoch
Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity. -- Norman Doidge
You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you. -- Russell Brand
The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone. -- Jim Gaffigan
Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone. -- Justin Swapp
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money. -- Kate Smith
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. -- Denis Diderot
He stared down at me, and i examined his beautiful eyes up close, something i'd never tire of doing. -- Tammara Webber
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. -- Thomas Paine
Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined. -- John Updike
I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world. -- John Adams
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another. -- Dov Davidoff
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. -- Terence McKenna
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all. -- Mark Twain
Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined. -- Barbara Oakley
Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart -- Tammara Webber
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio. -- Nick Lowe
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined. -- John Arbuthnot
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. -- Samuel Johnson
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. -- Hanif Kureishi
I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it. -- Nate Parker
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. -- Susan Orlean
We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over. -- John Bevere
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving -- Napoleon Hill
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. -- Doris Lessing
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false. -- Kabir
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. -- Nicole Kidman
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? -- Jules Verne
The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined! -- Leonard Ravenhill
There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? -- Kurt Vonnegut
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. -- Jeremy Rifkin
We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time. -- Lydia M. Child
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them. -- Casey Stengel
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure. -- H. G. Wells
This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted. -- James A. Baldwin
While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined. -- Renee Fleming
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living. -- Saul Bellow
The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world. -- Tomas Borge
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary. -- Galileo Galilei
It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined. -- Augusto Boal
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life, -- Barbara Kruger
An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.' -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
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. -- Stewart Alsop
Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it. -- Paul Feyerabend
I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance. -- Moby
Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined -- Zechariah Chafee
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked. -- Michael Winter
My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me. -- Gad Elmaleh
We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy." -- Carl Sagan
If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt. -- Os Guinness
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded. -- Vance Packard
A veterinarian who naively gave PETA some of the animals, thinking they would find them homes, and examined the dead bodies of others, testified that they were 'healthy' and 'adoptable.' -- Nathan Winograd
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all. -- Joyce Carol Oates
If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself. -- Michel de Montaigne
The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. -- Orson Scott Card
Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points. -- John Selden
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What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process. -- Sai Baba
Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism. -- Karl Popper
I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life. -- Alice McDermott
By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word. -- Stephen Sondheim
If settled means that it cant be re-examined, thats one thing. If settled means that it is a precedent that is entitled to respect then it is a precedent that is protected. -- Samuel Alito

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