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Examination Quotes
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. - Simon Van Der Meer Quotes
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. - Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H L Mencken Quotes
I dont know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim dont let them break you. - Jim Bakker Quotes
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda. - Heywood Broun Quotes
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent. - Pete Seeger Quotes
One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started. - Emil Zatopek Quotes
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. - Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose. - G K Chesterton Quotes
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. - Errol Morris Quotes
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me. - Paul Nurse Quotes
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social. - David E Kelley Quotes
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. - John Pople Quotes
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And thats, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior. - William Friedkin Quotes
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. - Ruth Benedict Quotes
I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. Ive earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, Im not a crook. Ive earned everything Ive got. - Richard M Nixon Quotes
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. - Peter Hammill Quotes
Theres so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
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 Quotes
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. - Aristotle Quotes
First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination you would have to pass, till you were scared. - Mary Antin Quotes
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. - Robert Motherwell Quotes
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. - Frederick Sanger Quotes
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning mans future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. - Julien Benda Quotes
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. - Emma Goldman Quotes
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