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"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination." »Immanuel Kant
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"Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers." »H. L. Mencken
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"The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." »Ronald Reagan
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"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination." »Mark Twain
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"To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination." »Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure." »Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year." »Albert Einstein
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"All reactionaries are paper tigers." »Mao Zedong
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"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way." »Ernest Hemingway
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"If they give you lined paper, write the other way." »William Carlos Williams
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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." »Juan Ramon Jiminez
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"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart..." »William Wadsworth
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"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." »Buddha
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"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." »Mark Twain
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"It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours." »A. M. Rosenthal
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"A book tightly shut is but a block of paper." »Chinese Proverb
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"A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper." »Charles Dickens
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"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top." »An English Professor, Ohio University
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"A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood." »Mark Ardis
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"A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two." »Richard Kehl
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"In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable." »Dr. Dale E. Turner
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"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves." »Gilbert Highet
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"Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state." »Kathleen Norris
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"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer." »Carl Sandburg
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"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." »Bertha Flowers
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape..." »Pablo Picasso
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