#examine

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american #because #believe #best #best way

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#creative #creative work #examines #hinders #ideas

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#into #look #minds #must #people

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#definition #examines #facts #historian #incapable

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#between #birth #encourage #reexamine #relations

No-one really feels self-confident deep down becuase it's an artifical 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 persucted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. ↗

— Russell Brand

#anonymously #around #deep #deep down #doing

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#antiquity #consensus #considerable #diligence #examine

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#act #borrow #borrowing #examine #him

Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace. ↗

— Richard Grasso

#calm #deploy #happened #into #investors

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#examined #had #i #military #military service