#examined

The examined life is no picnic. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#life #picnic

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

#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot. ↗

— Edmond About

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#contain #desires #examined #our #reveal

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. ↗

— Anna Freud

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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

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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

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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

#critically #even #examined #learned #lessons

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cannot #dangerous #examined #light #mortal

Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

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