Tested Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

  Ben Horowitz

  Decision, Important, Found

  "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2011.

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• A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

  Billy Bragg

  Virtue

  Song: Must I Paint You a Picture?

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• British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Mean, Illustration, Expression

  Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994). “On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is in balance. The swings in the mind are there to give you the experience, and to let you discover the you within you...That balance and swing lets your standard be tested. You cannot hold to something external. You must find your own depth and test it, confirm it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Past, Swings, Giving

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• What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

  Robert Nozick

  Past, Literature, Assumption

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• If it's not tested, it's broken.

  Bruce Eckel

  Broken, Ifs

  Bruce Eckel (2003). “Thinking in Java”, p.993, Prentice Hall Professional

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• Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.

  Jack Hyles

  Lips

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• So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

  Edward Witten

  Might, Strings, Theory

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• We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

  Gwen Moore

  Encouragement, Fighting, People

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• Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on earth-the excitement, the wonder, the fears when we brought him home. His every squeak or squawk we were sure heralded some terrible crisis; I tested the warmth of formulas from dusk to dawn, it seemed. We were so germ-conscious my wife even sterilized the skin of the oranges before squeezing them. How firstborns ever survive their parents' attentions is beyond me. However, they do, and he did, and, in spite of our efforts, he turned out to be quite a good guy.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Home, Orange

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• Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

  George A. Sheehan

  Race, Numbers, Risk

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• A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

  Ben Horowitz

  Entrepreneur, Needs, Found

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• No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Character

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2005). “The Manhood of the Master”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinicaltrials to show the Food and Drug Administration that the drug is safe and effective, usually as compared with a placebo or dummy pill. The results of all the trials (there may be many) are submitted to the FDA, and if one or two trials are positive—that is, they show effectiveness without serious risk—the drug is usually approved, even if all the other trials are negative.

  Marcia Angell

  Two, Effectiveness, Fda

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• Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we didn't turn our back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Eye, Journey

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

  Norman Lamm

  Needs, May, Dogma

  Norman Lamm (2006). “Faith and Doubt: Studies in Traditional Jewish Thought”, p.122, KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

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• Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Faith, Night, Doubt

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• Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Mother, Baby, Years

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• We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination.

  Christopher

  Determination, Knows, Can Do

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• Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

  George Vecsey

  Art, Robins, Gorgeous

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• Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Patience, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Joy and Peace: A Holy Condition”, p.84, Discovery House

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• Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Blessing, Being Thankful, Three Things

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• That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

  Laura Dave

  Breakup, Thinking, People

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.92, Penguin

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