Quotes and Sayings About Examination
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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 -
The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs.
-- Stanley Cavell -
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 -
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.
-- Tim Ferriss -
In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?
-- Tom Chatfield -
Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.
-- Tom Duff -
And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
-- Victoria Gomez Cima -
One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).
-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
-- Walter Alexander Raleigh -
On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.
-- Walther Nernst -
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 -
If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.
-- William H. Ginsburg -
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
-- William Henry Harrison -
I think that most small amounts of ***** have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.
-- William J. Clinton -
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.
-- William James Mayo -
I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.
-- Zachary Quinto -
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
The story revolved around this universal identifiable fear that we must all have, at some point, when you commit yourself to being with another person, to have and to hold until death do us part. It's a huge thing. I just felt like it was a brilliant examination of what would happen, if the person that you trusted implicitly and thought you knew every follicle and pour of, inside and out, started to not be that person anymore, inside. Physically, they're still there, but they're not there mentally.
-- Harry Treadaway -
Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.
-- John Henry Wigmore -
Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?
-- Laura Mullen -
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that we should talk about more than we do. And it's funny, of course, so we have that release valve with absurdism. It offers us a safe way to explore difficult subject matter.
-- Laurie Foos -
Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.
-- Sebastian Copeland -
Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.
-- St. Lucia -
I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other.
-- Stephen Beal -
We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to.
-- Ze'ev Jabotinsky
