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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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"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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"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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"The way to final freedom is within thy self." »The Book of the Golden Precepts
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"Success is never final." »Winston Churchill
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"Success is never final, but failure can be." »Bill Parcells
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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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"Success is never permanent, and failure is never final." »Mike Ditka
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"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." »Roger Babson
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"The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2." »Jerry Coleman
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"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last." »Marcel Proust
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"The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions." »Maurice Chapelain
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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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"Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue." »Demosthenes
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"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster." »Robert M. Pirsig
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"There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening." »William Weld
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"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final." »Anonymous
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"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." »Walter J. Lippmann
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"To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity." »Edward Weeks
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"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us." »Peter De Vries
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"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on." »Walter Lippmann
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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes." »Buddha
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"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement." »Michael Korda
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts." »Winston Churchill
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