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• Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o'-the-wisps. There will be those who tell you that you are foolish; that your judgment is faulty; that your conscience is all awry, and that the light within you is darkness; but heed them not. If what they say is true, the sooner you, as a searcher of wisdom, find it out the better, and you can only make that discovery by bringing your powers to the test. Therefore, pursue your course bravely.

  James Allen

  Light, Discovery, Rely Upon

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• Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

  Robin Roberts

  Cancer, Thinking, Challenges

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• We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all to prefer fitting in with the right people

  Seth

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

  Sam Ervin

  Science, Century, Witchcraft

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• When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit. A constant ferment, but it might just as well be going on in a test tube. Nobody knows what it's all about. Nobody directs the energy. Stupendous. Bizarre, Baffling. A tremendous reactive urge, but absolutely uncoordinated.

  Henry Miller

  New York, Men, Thinking

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.

  David J. Schwartz

  Healing, Successful, Work Out

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• And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.

  John Sexton

  California, Southern, Months

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• England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

  David Lloyd

  England, Nothing To Lose, Loses

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

  David Lloyd

  Fire, Bowlers, Blokes

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• I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

  Will Wright

  Bugs, Kind, Natural

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• I took a lie detector test the other day. No, I didn't.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Motivation, Lying

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• Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

  Martha Beck

  Suffering, Causes

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!”, p.210, Rodale

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• My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

  William Scranton

  Suits, Take Me, My Time

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• I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Character, Doe, Thorough

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• I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Hearing, Professors

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.107, Multnomah

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• Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

  John Piper

  Running, Long, Waiting

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• Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.

  Tom Watson

  Beautiful, Golf, World

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• Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.

  John Lubbock

  Children, Science, Men

  Sir John Lubbock (1872). “Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages”, p.570

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• For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

  Paul Johnson

  Intellectual, Jew, Feels

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• There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

  Henry Taylor

  Character, Men, Conducting

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.101

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• The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.

  Herbert Simon

  Two, Tasks, Evolution

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• No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.
  Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Horse, Character, Bad Day

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• Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

  John Lubbock

  Character, Endurance, Heroism

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• The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

  Jerome Frank

  Civilization, Quality, Moral

  Jerome Frank (1977). “A man's reach: the philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• When I was 16, I took the written driving test, just like everybody else did, and I passed it. Then the first time I was behind the wheel of a car, when I was a kid, it kind of freaked me out. I've always been a very anxious student of anything, and so not being able to process things quickly enough, feeling overwhelmed, I just got freaked out and so I just never tried again.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Kids, Car, Feelings

  "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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