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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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• 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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• 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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• I travel a lot with my students. We go on the road and even learn about things like doing your laundry and managing your time. And maybe that's not on the test at the end of the year, but it's in the test of life and that's why my classroom is successful.

  Rafe Esquith

  Successful, Years, Goes On

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Character, Invisible, Intention

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• You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Successful, Skills, Support

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• [America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.

  Kesha Rogers

  Teaching, Discovery, America

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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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• A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Real, Mean, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mind, Cinema, England

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• I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.

  Mohamed Farah

  Life, Taken, Careers

  "Mo Farah breaks silence: I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs" by Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2015.

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• Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.

  Ellery Sedgwick

  Real, Lying, Democracy

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• Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through.

  Roderick L. Evans

  Sometimes, Lord, Arise

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• Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mistake, Thinking, Feet

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• Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Film, Type, Certain

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• Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.

  Gene Kranz

  Should Have, Safety, Design

  Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• The next move is always the test.

  Seamus Heaney

  Moving, Next Move, Next

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• I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Months

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• I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

  Jennifer Phang

  Inspire, Film, Stranger

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

  Natalie Portman

  Children, Thinking, Worst Nightmares

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• Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

  Bruce Campbell

  Chemistry, Sometimes, Failing

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• In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atmosphere, Faces, Scope

  Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “Writings and Speeches of Mahatma Gandhi Relating to Bihar, 1917-1947”

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