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• I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Thinking, Choices, Decision

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• All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

  Rashad Evans

  Wrestling, Valleys, Trials

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• Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Acceptance, Science

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• You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strength, Remember You, Remembers You

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

  Lord Acton

  Character, Men, Personality

  Lord Acton (2016). “Historical Essays and Studies: Great Event”, p.449, VM eBooks

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• The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

  Arthur Miller

  Fun, Attitude, Writing

  Richard Isadore Evans, Arthur Miller (1969). “Psychology and Arthur Miller”, Praeger Publishers

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• It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Fire, Faithful

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• From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any 'new force' or what not, directing the behaviour of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Life, Science, Law

  "What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches".

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• All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.

  Ernst Mayr

  Science, Forever, Mind

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• There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft

  Mean, Science, Iodine

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1926). “Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory”

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• More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, World, Ruts

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• Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Science, House, Details

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• We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Strong, Integrity, Wish

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• Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Truth, Father, Confusion

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• The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal, and partly national; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal; in the extent of them again, it is federal, not national; and finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither wholly federal, nor wholly national.

  James Madison

  Government, Foundation, Ordinary

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.179

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• Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination.

  Lorraine Moller

  Running, Heart, Air

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• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible

  Karl Malone

  Marijuana, League, Guy

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• Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas'
  - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind
  without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ideas, Mind, Combination

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• Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Religious, Heart, Keys

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• Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

  Tamora Pierce

  Character, Needs, Honorable

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.74, Scholastic Inc.

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• Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Jobs, Best Job

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• If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Live By, Trusted

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• If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.

  Prince Charles

  Children, Thinking, Impact

  "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.

  Evander Holyfield

  Heart, Fighting, Garden

  FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from Nov 15, 2015

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• You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Motivational, Way

  Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.85, Macmillan

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