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• Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

  Richard Branson

  Odds, Flying, World

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• The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

  Jimmy Carter

  4th Of July, Adversity, Patriotic

  1978 Address to the Parliament of India, 2 Jun.

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• Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

  Elizabeth I

  Silence, Secret

  "Dating In Midlife And What Secrets To Reveal" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

  Denis Leary

  Believe, Skeletons, Envelopes

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• I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Responsibility, Learning

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• The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.

  Nagisa Oshima

  Desire, Looks, Unbearable

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• America is the only superpower. But our leadership is being tested in the Middle East, and some of the things that we have done in the Middle East are contributing to a potential explosion region-wide. And if that explosion gets out of hand, we may end up being bogged down for many years to come in a conflict that will be profoundly damaging to our capacity to exercise our power, to address the problems implicit in this global awakening, and we may face a world in which much of the world turns away from us, seeks its own equilibrium, but probably slides into a growing chaos.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Exercise, America, Hands

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Echoes, Autism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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