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The examined life is no picnic.
I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
I can understand being in such a public place and having your intimate private life examined.
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.
Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.
What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had been before.
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.
In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.
All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.
Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.
Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
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.
It is normal to be under pressure in England and Italy when you arrive in the last two months of the season. Every manager is talked about, and their squad is examined.
They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.
I had been kind of quite porky and happy at boarding school and not self-conscious at all; then, suddenly, I found myself in auditions being examined, and it made me angry.
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.
It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.
If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.
I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.
My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.
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.
The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.
Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
I love Coach K's passion to coach his players and to coach the game. I examined and watched the interaction between him and his staff, along with the players, and was impressed how hard they played.
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.
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.
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.
Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets.