Quotes with examination-papers

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  • Bill Dedman A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Will Rogers All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Shapiro America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • E. M. Forster As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Buddha 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
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Buddha Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined 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 conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Anna Held I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Alonzo Church I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Ruth Benedict 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
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Malcolm Forbes If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Ben Katchor In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Sir J. Walter Alexander Raleigh In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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  • Ben Goldacre In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Louis Nizer In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Integrity of the individual is what we're being judged for and if we are not passing that examination, we don't really have the guts, we'll blow ourselves up. It will be all over. I think it's all the difference in the world.
    Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Judge - A law student who marks his own examination-papers.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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