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• Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

  Lisa Randall

  Ideas, Research, Scientist

  "CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.

  Patti Davis

  Resilience, Doe, Sickness

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• The Christian feels that the tooth of time gnaws all books but the Bible...19 centuries of experience have tested it. It has passed through critical fires no other volume has suffered and its spiritual truth has endured the flames and come out without so much as the smell of burning.

  W. Sangster

  Bible, Christian, Spiritual

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• The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.

  Stefan Zweig

  Military, War, Creativity

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• Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question that I certainly have myself. What would I be able to do in certain situations? He came out, obviously, looking like a true hero, but he didn't go in looking like that. He was not your typical image of somebody that you would think would be the tough guy who was able to endure. His lighthearted attitude, this sort of dorkiness, and naivete; it ended up being the finest tool for his survival.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, Hero, Men

  "Christian Bale Pushes the Limits in Rescue Dawn". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 8, 2007.

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• We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts... that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.

  Eric Taylor

  Pain, Fall, Taken

  "Fictional character: Eric Taylor". "Friday Night Lights" (Pilot), www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

  John Hurt

  Relief, Feels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

  Martin Seligman

  Kindness, Exercise, Increase

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Flourish”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.

  William E. Burrows

  Engineering, Numbers, Safety

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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• Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

  Jack Kemp

  Commitment, Democracy, Mathematical

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• I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't. [...] But I am not a bully.

  Chris Christie

  Party, Blow, Issues

  News conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they don't mind that they're obvious, their point is made.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Mind, Stuff

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.

  The Rev

  Years, People, Bullshit

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• I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action... It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong, Cancer, Heart

  "My Medical Choice" by Angelina Jolie, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

  Ehud Olmert

  Leadership, Decision, Trying

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• Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Adequacy, Establishment

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• Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true."

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Use, Various

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• Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ignorance, Twenties, Finals

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.66, University of Georgia Press

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• I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, Smart

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• As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

  Horace Mann

  Christian, Wise, Gratitude

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• [The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

  Benito Mussolini

  Lonely, Men, Age

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• The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Adequacy, Research, Standards

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Believe, Angel, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

  Alice James

  Complacency, Gains, Conscious

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Cooking, Born, Cooks

  IRMA S ROMBAUER (1964). “VOLUME 2 APPETIZERS DESSERTS AND BAKED GOODS JOY OF COOKING”

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