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• I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.

  Brian Helgeland

  Dog, Fighting, Thinking

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• True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Rude, Weakness

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. II), 1916.

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• Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

  Peter Ustinov

  Humanity, Age, Battle

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

  Winston Churchill

  Different, Generations, Trials

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• Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

  Winston Churchill

  Trials, World, Life Is

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Stories, Narrative

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• The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Pain, Self

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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• "Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.

  Jack Williamson

  Mean, Past, Ideas

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• Concealed in every new situation we face is a spiritual lesson to be learned and a spiritual blessing for us if we learn that lesson. It is good to be tested. We grow and learn through passing tests. I look upon all my tests as good experiences. Before I was tested, I believed I would act in a loving or non-fearing way. After I was tested, I knew! Every test turned out to be an uplifting experience. And it is not important that the outcome be according to our wishes.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Blessing

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• Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Character, Adversity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.680, Library of Alexandria

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• If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Simple, Proliferation Treaty

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• The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

  John Hersey

  Art, Finals, Art Is

  John Hersey (1974). “The writer's craft”, McGraw-Hill

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• This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.

  Winnie Holzman

  Instruction, This Life, Has Beens

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• Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Understanding, World

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.133, Random House

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• The only way to pass a test is to take the test

  Marlo Morgan

  Way

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• The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.

  Troy Polamalu

  Wise, Football

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• It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure.

  Jason Bay

  Persons, Handle

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• You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

  Michael Owen

  Earth, Acid, Stage

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• The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Facts, Virtue, Scientist

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• Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Character, Invisible, Intention

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• We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Kids, Adventure, Order

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• The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Real, Home, Kids

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• We shall not cease from exploring,
  And the end of our exploring
  Will be to arrive where we started
  And know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love Is, Mind Love, Bridges

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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• The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

  William A. Henry III

  School, Essence, Ideas

  William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.71, Anchor

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• The only way to pass any test is to take the test. All tests on every level are always repeated one way or another until you pass.

  Marlo Morgan

  Levels, Way, One Way

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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