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• Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

  John Lubbock

  Character, Endurance, Heroism

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• When I was 16, I took the written driving test, just like everybody else did, and I passed it. Then the first time I was behind the wheel of a car, when I was a kid, it kind of freaked me out. I've always been a very anxious student of anything, and so not being able to process things quickly enough, feeling overwhelmed, I just got freaked out and so I just never tried again.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Kids, Car, Feelings

  "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.

  Kristen Stewart

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of the album is made of love songs I've written over the past three or four years that have lasted the test of time. It's probably the thing that connects the songs together other than the sound of my vocals.

  Vance Joy

  Song, Past, Years

  "Vance Joy's imaginary dreams". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2014.

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• I have a sixth sense for casting. I just have to see and talk to the actors. I never make tests. I like to work with crowds. I like to get the principals in a crowd. When they do, something else comes off, something special.

  Frank Capra

  Special, Actors, Crowds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!

  Guy Kawasaki

  Mean, Needs, Tools

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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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• Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

  David McCullough

  Book, Biographies, Novel

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.

  Drew Brees

  Successful, Common Threads, Nfl

  "A Half Dozen Questions for Drew Brees". Interview with John B. Thompson, www.gq.com. April 23, 2010.

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• This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.

  Wendell Berry

  War, People, Enemy

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.

  Robert Orben

  Humility, Grace, Crow

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• Failure is the test of greatness.

  Herman Melville

  Greatness

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• The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Reading, Government, Action

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• Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

  Karl Popper

  Genuine, Theory

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.48, Routledge

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• The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Adversity, Unconditional, Assistance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Everything's a conspiracy and everything's not a conspiracy. You could look at this planet and go, "This is all a conspiracy. God made this to test us to see if we'll use the nukes." You can let your mind believe anything.

  Harland Williams

  Believe, Mind, Nukes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Wages, England, Sometimes

  "The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay" by Thomas Pinney, vol. 6, p. 95", 1981.

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• F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'

  Bill Maher

  Ideas, Two, Wife

  Bill Maher (2003). “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism”, New Millenium

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• Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.

  Julian Barnes

  Sex, Opposites, Able

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

  Ian Botham

  Player, Decision, Village

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• In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.

  Stewart Lee

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

  "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle/ Religion". Comedy, April 2009.

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• Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Struggle, Reader

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• A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Fall, Age

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• The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

  Arnold Bennett

  Calling, Firsts, Sincerity

  1921 Things That Have Interested Me,'Finishing Books'.

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• I don't think the question is if should we have a shield law. I think the question is what kind of shield law we should have. Yes, I'd like to see a federal shield law, but if and only if it provides genuine safeguards and doesn't green-light prosecutors and judges and litigants from going after the press and getting things to which they should not be entitled. It's not a simple kind of litmus test.

  Ted Gup

  Simple, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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