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• Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

  David Deutsch

  Tests, Failing, Explanation

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• I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.

  Carolyn Wheat

  Book, Character, Writing

  Carolyn Wheat (2011). “How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense”, p.41, SCB Distributors

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• You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Media, Looks

  Song: Misfits, Album: Misfits

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• There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Principles, Conclusion

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.25, Routledge

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• I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

  Tab Hunter

  Battle, Roles, Tests

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• I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Recipes, Tough, Bland

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• Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Way

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• My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

  David Knopfler

  Water, Sirens, Kind

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• The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.

  Peter Singer

  Stupid, Eye, Animal

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• As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested.

  Eminem

  Sex, Scared, Aids

  Song: I'm Shady, Album: The Slim Shady LP

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• Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.

  Delia Smith

  Simple, Remember, Minutes

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• I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Film, Shots, Planes

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• Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than youre likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!

  Bruce Ames

  Cancer, Coffee, Science

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• I have never injected myself or had anyone inject me with anything. I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic. I have been tested as recently as 2004, and I am clean.

  Sammy Sosa

  Law, Broken, United States

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• Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.

  Martha Stewart

  Writing, Vogue Magazine, Editors

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• We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

  Erich Hoeber

  Character, Ideas, People

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• With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

  Dustin Lynch

  Jobs, Wish, Environmental

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• Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Heaven, Suffering

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• We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.

  Lindsey Graham

  Retirement, Mean, People

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.

  Allison Mackie

  Skills, Critics

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• During this period the Lord has allowed us to be tested beyond our strength; often 'pressed out of measure, above strength...that we should not trust in ourselves.' Our faith has grown with the work, and we have proved over and over again that all the testings have been for the purpose of strengthening it.

  Rees Howells

  Purpose, Lord, Periods

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• I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, People, Challenges

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• When you're really tested, that's what shows you who you are as a person.

  Rich Franklin

  Mma, Shows, Persons

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• We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

  Mike Tyson

  Dark, Doors, Mma

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• We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

  Mike Tyson

  Dark, Doors, Mma

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