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  •    Search me,O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms139:23^4.

  • Searchthescriptures;forinthemyethink yehave eternal life: and theyare they which testify of me.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St  John 5:39.

  •   He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

    - Peter Jackson
      Ruling to uphold the Supreme Court as the bench of last appeal, 9 Feb.

  • Science is a search for truthit is not a game in which one tries to best his opponent, to do harm to others.

    - Linus Carl Pauling
      No MoreWar.

  • Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death, and make him understand, After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong. Huddled in dirt, the reasoning engine lies, Who was so proud, so witty, and so wise.

    -JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
      'A SatyrAgainst Mankind', l.25^30 (published1679).

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