Tested Quotes - Page 11

• I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

  Karen Morley

  Furniture, Euthanasia, Ifs

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• Sometimes there is little regard for people's lives....A hospital tested a new NCI drug ...on children. Their kidneys were lost within days. This was no big deal, because new drugs are routinely given out with literally no safeguards for people.

  Robert Young

  Children, Dark, People

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• The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out.

  Melissa Bean

  Party, Balance, Important

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• I would avoid any product that contains genetically modified (GMO) corn, because there are still questions regarding the long-term health effects of genetically altered foods on the human body have not been thoroughly tested. Sugars are also sneaked into tons of different foods, especially foods marketed to kids. Again, study the labels carefully before buying.

  Deirdre Imus

  Kids, Gmos, Long

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• The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Math, Simple

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat”, p.45, Basic Books

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• You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.

  James L. Brooks

  Baby, Creativity, Hollywood Films

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• I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

  David Knopfler

  Feelings, Magic, Exhilaration

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• On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

  Joe Slovo

  Struggle, Hands, Class

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• A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet. In our culture-so outer-directed, "objective" or extraverted-this is already heresy. This is self-mastering thinking, centered in what has been well-tested as certainties: autarkia or self-rule.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Feet

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• I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

  Ann Richards

  Fire, Lost

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• Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Mean, Praying

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• There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

  Idries Shah

  Ignorance, Mean, Trying

  Idries Shah (1988). “Caravan of Dreams”, p.217, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.

  Chris Johnson

  Shadow, Different, Way

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• We are particularly proud of our youth. I think we have never had a stronger generation of young men and women than we have today. For the most part they are true to the faith of their forebears. Surrounded by forces that would pull them down and tremendous pressures to pull them away from time-tested virtues, they are going forward with constructive lives, nurturing themselves both intellectually and spiritually. We have no fears or doubts concerning the future of this work.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Thinking, Our Generation

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• It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

  William James

  Lonely, Fall, Routine

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

  Glenn Close

  Blood, Upset, Behavior

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• Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

  David Quammen

  Thoughtful, Long, Battle

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• I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

  Channing Tatum

  School, Focus, Drug

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• One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Order, Heaven

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• We'll not be sending anyone into space before it is safe and the vehicle is well and truly tested.

  Richard Branson

  Space, Safe, Vehicle

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• Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

  Walt Whitman

  Wisdom, School, Soul

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• ...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Self, Wind, Trials

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• I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

  Bob Brown

  Fundamentals, Goodness, Humans

  "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.

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• In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.

  Henry Suso

  Voice, Saws, Firsts

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• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  Adam Baldwin

  Couple, Pilots, Said

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