“ It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
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“ Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. ”
- William Osler- Copy
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“ Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man. ”
- Lao tzu- Copy
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“ The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ There's pressure all the time. It's stressful going to a premiere and having to look perfect, and everybody scrutinizes what you're wearing. It's scary. There's so much emphasis put on the physical. ”
- Liv Tyler- Copy
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“ Knowledge of another culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more livingly, our own. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ Enjoy your happiness while you have it; and while you have it, do not too closely scrutinize its foundation. ”
- Joseph Farrell- Copy
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“ The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read… ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ. ”
- Robert Sternberg- Copy
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“ There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy… ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
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“ In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist. ”
- Dennis Prager- Copy
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“ The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
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“ A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch Big Brother. ”
- Bill Maher- Copy
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“ There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant… ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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