#exam

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#april #because #could #desire #discoveries

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. ↗

— Confucius

#contrary #examine #inwards #ourselves #persons

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. ↗

— Confucius

#before #example #go #laborious #people

Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children. ↗

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

#example #morality #parenting #young #education

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest." ↗

— Bill Cosby

#brother #child #did #discovered #eggs

In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order. ↗

— Jim Costa

#blue #challenges #coming #congress #deal

For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#different ways #director #example #for example #general

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#commentaries #could #deleted #director #doing

It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

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