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• Sarah Palin is an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years. I don`t think she passed that test.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. January 19, 2016.

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• South Korea are pushing for a stronger way to isolate and punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test.

  Elise Hu

  Korea, Stronger, Nuclear

  "North Korea Claims It Has U.S. Student In Custody". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 22, 2016.

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• We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or another Great Wall. But these buildings haven't withstood the test of time because of their building quality. They stand tall because they have a symbolic value, they represent a culture.

  Zhang Xin

  Wall, Pyramids, Quality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a test tube and you find out all kind of things in six weeks - where they are from in Africa or Europe. You can prove or disprove the fundamental African-American myth that you descended from a Cherokee great, great grandmother.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Grandmother, Dna, Europe

  "Black Ancestry Matters on ‘Finding Your Roots’". Interview with ALEXANDRA PHANOR-FAURY, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.

  Marcel Dzama

  Art, School, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

  Diane Ravitch

  Thinking, Law, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Sometimes I listen to the radio and I can't believe some of the stuff that I'm hearing that everyone is loving. So it's a task that we've got to conquer and we have to make sure that we pass the test.

  Ginuwine

  Believe, Tasks, Radio

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.

  Sara Paretsky

  Summer, Running, Religious

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. When you have someone like Cheney who talks about "endless war" or war that might last fifty years, he could be Big Brother. You have Bush incessantly going on about the evil ones.

  John Pilger

  Brother, War, Writing

  Source: progressive.org

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• I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.

  Drew McWeeny

  Thinking, Shooting, Filmmaker

  "Joel and Ethan Coen on how they turned Hollywood history into the hysterical ‘Hail, Caesar!’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 2, 2016.

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• We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Iran, Support

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• The intelligence community, in particular the FBI, have been sounding alarms about this for more than a year. So to argue that suddenly we have to do this because of the San Bernardino case doesn't really pass the straight-face test. I mean, they've been talking about this. And to say, well, it will only apply to this case, that just - that doesn't wash. This is a major piece of public policy.

  Angus King

  Mean, Talking, Years

  "Congress Should Decide Encryption Issue, Sen. Angus King Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.

  B. J. Porter

  Writing, Jewels, Talking

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.

  Lucy Flores

  Thinking, Firsts, Demographics

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• I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I'd train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica... You've really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off.

  Lewis Pugh

  Dream, Sea, Swim

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.

  Carly Fiorina

  Russia, Ukraine, Iran

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Unique, Talking, Numbers

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• To something that looks very different. The thing to understand here is that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, they're not the disease and they're not the symptom of the disease. They are the beta test of a cure for the perspective of the people.

  Ben Domenech

  People, Perspective, Different

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

  Kevin Allen

  Real, Believe, Intelligent

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sports, Volleyball, Beach

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of weakness. When you're weak, do you compromise, do you bend, do you give in, do you accommodate? And then the test of strength. When you're strong, are you merciful, are you generous, or are you cruel?

  Salman Rushdie

  Strong, Two, Giving

  "In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2012.

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• I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.

  Ayshay

  People, Littles, Taught

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

  Johnny Marr

  Growing Up, People, Know How

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think I did a couple of test commercials that didn't even make it on the air. That's how little I had really done. I knew almost nothing about the camera. In fact, I actually did know nothing about the camera.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Couple, Thinking, Air

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the best performances you've ever seen, and they sound incredible.

  Feist

  Special, Sound, Midnight

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2010.

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