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• For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Loyalty, Honesty, Hate

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.483, St. Martin's Press

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• You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

  J. K. Rowling

  Positive, Adversity, Our Relationship

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• Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

  Leon Leonwood Bean

  Business, Service Culture, Profit

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• It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Change, Men, Order

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, www.theguardian.com. 1532.

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• Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life—to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Thinking, Temptation, Purpose

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• Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Couple, Hands, Twists

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Ark angel”, Putnam Juvenile

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• When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same note. I'd tested her before I burnt the library, and our piano along with it. Rose screams on the note B flat. We don't need a piano anymore now that we have a human tuning fork.

  Franny Billingsley

  Piano, Rose, Library

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.39, A&C Black

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• This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it.

  Helen Humphreys

  Goodbye, Lost Ones, Choices

  Helen Humphreys (2003). “The Lost Garden: A Novel”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.

  Amish Tripathi

  Character, Amish, Ethics

  Amish Tripathi (2012). “The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.

  Rick Warren

  Prayer, Character, Promise

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Adversity, Stronger

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• People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Adventure, Years, Law

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• Jake's mouth found mine, his lips molding hot and soft to my own. His tongue tentatively tested the seal of my lips; I parted them and he pushed inside. It was startlingly sweet and achingly familiar, like finding harbor.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sweet, Jake, Hot

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• The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested. The Noees said no to everything Unless it was proven and tested. So the Yesees all died of much too much And the Noees all died of fright, But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right.

  Shel Silverstein

  Thinking, Too Much, Said

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• You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Funny Harry Potter, Needs

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• No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Stars, Spring

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• A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

  Tahir Shah

  Journey, Merit

  Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation.

  Sarah Palin

  Hope, Easter, Believe

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• I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

  Pete Townshend

  I've Learned, Trusted, Huge

  "Won't get fooled again..." by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.

  Bill Frist

  Moving, America, Way Forward

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• Learn not to add too many features right away, and get the core idea built and tested.

  Leah Culver

  Ideas, Add, Built

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• Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

  Timothy Winter

  Law, Ethics, Emotion

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• I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

  Kabir Bedi

  Cinema, Want, Faces

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• Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

  Nancy Friday

  Errors, Failing, Spontaneous

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• Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

  Nelson Goodman

  Agreement, Different, World

  Nelson Goodman (1978). “Ways of Worldmaking”, p.17, Hackett Publishing

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