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• A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

  Rosemary Verey

  Winter, Garden, Absolutes

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• The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Bankers, Culture

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• I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get their opinions before making decisions, or if you pay too much attention to what other people say about what you create, that it really pollutes your expression. I think that I'm much more about pure art and honesty and expressing exactly what I feel, and not caring so much what anyone says. However, I do respect, and I do pay attention to everyone's comments. And I do take them into consideration. But I don't base my decisions by it

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Honesty, Caring

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• There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes President he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Prayer, People

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• If we compare the present state of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must... declare it to be marvelously correct. Such has been the care with which the New Testament has been copied - a care which has doubtless grown out of true reverence for its holy words.... The New Testament is unrivaled among ancient writings in the purity of its test as actually transmitted and kept in use.

  B. B. Warfield

  Writing, Care, Use

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• If we take two people who have exactly the same sort of lesion or area of damage in the brain and then we do cognitive tests on them, you know, one person might have a very severe deficit in a certain area of thinking and another person might not with the same exact lesion. So there is a lot of differences and you can't just look at one brain and understand the whole picture.

  H. A. Berlin

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  "Heather Berlin on the Link Between Genius and Disorder". bigthink.com.

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• And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.

  John Sexton

  California, Southern, Months

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• I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.

  David Campese

  Focus, Once Upon A Time, Quality

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• There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

  George Orwell

  Literary Merit, Survival, Majority

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed, and to yet others so as to forestall sins which may be committed in the future. These are distinct from the trials that arise in order to test men in the way that Job was tested.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Jobs, Men, Past

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• The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

  Oswald Chambers

  Character, Men, Tongue

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• Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Struggle, Growth

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• The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Real, Believe, Love Is

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• The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Grace, Spirituality, Amazement

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• All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Believe, Discipline, Confusing

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• Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Practice, Play, Challenges

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• No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

  Ashanti

  Rivers, Feet, Common Sense

  "The last word on Prudence" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 1999.

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• The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.

  Assar Lindbeck

  Firsts, Brilliant, Theory

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• I dyed my hair for photo tests... I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?

  Ben Affleck

  Hair

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• If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.

  Kent Beck

  Cost, Testing, Ifs

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• To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Definitions, New Words

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• Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Determination, Two Sides, Government

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• So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Teacher, Jobs

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• When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

  Demetri Martin

  Multiple Choice, Choices, Given

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2012

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• If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Done, May

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