#exam

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

#beauty #cannot #decency #define #defined

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#between #caused #cite #classes #common

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#examples #familiar #material #may #objects

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. ↗

— Quintilian

#examining #expected #find #into #least

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#being #coming #culture #deeper #dig

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#better #boards #classic #classic example #example

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#another #architect #career #enthusiasm #examinations

I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#appointment #aware #breast cancer #cancer #could

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead. ↗

— James Randi

#been #cancer #example #faith #forehead

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. ↗

— James Randi

#doctor #eventually #examined #few #further