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• Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Dark, Years

  Barack Obama's remarks at Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 29, 2013.

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• What is really important is to educate people how to protect themselves and how to ensure that, despite their poverty, they can get tested and access drugs. So I just hope that those who can will make those drugs available.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Drug, Important

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.

  Tom Verducci

  Baseball, Average, League

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• Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.

  Bill Nye

  Discovery, Views, Medicine

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.5, St. Martin's Press

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• Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

  Albert Brooks

  Trying, Entertainment, Toothpaste

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• Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.

  Jay Bell

  Falling In Love, Memories, Love Is

  Jay Bell (2017). “Something Like Summer: School Edition”, p.217, Jay Bell

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• The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

  Willard Scott

  Clouds, Years, Vision

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• Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

  Norman Foster

  San Francisco, Car, Google

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• We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike. But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us?

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Adversity

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• A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Peace, War, Gun

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• Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

  Paul Theroux

  Limits, Capacity, Great Things

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I remember my agent at the time called me and was like, "I've got it! I've found it! I've found your role!" I worked my ass off to get that role, because I think me and three or four other girls tested for it. But it was a great time.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Girl, Thinking, Agents

  "Sherilyn Fenn talks David Lynch and how Twin Peaks should have ended". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. January 22, 2014.

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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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• Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

  Steve Blank

  Writing, Creative, Firsts

  "No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models". steveblank.com. April 08, 2010.

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• The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Math, Simple

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat”, p.45, Basic Books

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• You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.

  James L. Brooks

  Baby, Creativity, Hollywood Films

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• I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

  David Knopfler

  Feelings, Magic, Exhilaration

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• On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

  Joe Slovo

  Struggle, Hands, Class

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• A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet. In our culture-so outer-directed, "objective" or extraverted-this is already heresy. This is self-mastering thinking, centered in what has been well-tested as certainties: autarkia or self-rule.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Feet

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• I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

  Ann Richards

  Fire, Lost

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• Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Mean, Praying

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• There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

  Idries Shah

  Ignorance, Mean, Trying

  Idries Shah (1988). “Caravan of Dreams”, p.217, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.

  Chris Johnson

  Shadow, Different, Way

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• We are particularly proud of our youth. I think we have never had a stronger generation of young men and women than we have today. For the most part they are true to the faith of their forebears. Surrounded by forces that would pull them down and tremendous pressures to pull them away from time-tested virtues, they are going forward with constructive lives, nurturing themselves both intellectually and spiritually. We have no fears or doubts concerning the future of this work.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Thinking, Our Generation

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• It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

  William James

  Lonely, Fall, Routine

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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