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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Bertrand Russell

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Stephen Jay Gould

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing ... are parents.

Jack Valenti

These settlements, which have recovered nearly $5 million in overpayments and penalties, demonstrate the government's strong commitment to protecting the Medicare system. We will continue to scrutinize medical providers' billing to ensure compliance with medical coding guidelines and to protect every taxpayer's investment in the Medicare system.

Rodger Heaton

I've had vendors try to assess me with a handling charge to offset the price of gas, which is illegal. But the vendors are getting creative in finding ways to write these costs off, so you really have to [scrutinize] the bills.

Fred Russell

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own.

Margaret Mead

We do a huge amount of business online, but we scrutinize things more. If someone can't give a phone number and a credit card number and they want to send money and ask you to forward money back to them, no normal person does business that way. If it doesn't seem right, it probably isn't.

Tom G. Palmer

You can imagine the kind of problems you can solve with this, like a tsunami warning device that would scrutinize huge amounts of information from the ocean and then analyze that quite quickly, or for homeland security applications, where you need to scan images of people and match those images against large databases.

Chris Maher

The apparent inconsistent reports certainly give us cause to look at the insurance company's denial of payment with a jaded eye. There's good reason to scrutinize.

Zach Butterworth

The heightened regulatory requirements around Sarbanes-Oxley over the last few years are causing them to highly scrutinize the way they are doing things.

John Mcgrory

In the end, for a seasoned professional [the delayed testimony] won't be outcome determinate. The bigger setback was getting the judge's gander up so that the judge will scrutinize more carefully other issues based on the disclosure issues here.

Jim Walden

[Yet many employers, in their eagerness to hire, may not scrutinize the papers they're given.] We had a guy here for 10 years under one name, ... Now his name is another name. Now that he became legal, he's got a real social security number.

Daniel Kane