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• The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

  Samuel Richardson

  Reading, Firsts, Relation

  Samuel Richardson (1824). ““The” Novels Of Samuel Richardson, Esq. Viz. Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, And Sir Charles Grandison: 6-8”, p.710

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• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  Sally Ride

  Two, Space, Pilots

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• The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Microsoft, Information, Court

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• Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Race, Achievement

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• If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Decision, Guidance, Staff

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

  Gus Van Sant

  Blow, Hunting, Laughing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 5, 2003.

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• In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

  Adam Savage

  Yield, Data, Spirit

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• The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Successful, Accepted, Quantum

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• People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

  Lisa See

  People, Lasts, Saws

  "Lisa See: Best-selling Author Talks Female Friendships, Adapting Her Novel To Film". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

  Maurice Sendak

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

  Al Sharpton

  Fighting, Iraq, America

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 28 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Family, Children, Parenting

  Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 9

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• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  Gail Sheehy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Military

  Gail Sheehy (1990). “The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

  Alan Shepard

  World, Pilots, Knows

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• But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

  Alan Shepard

  School, Firsts, Littles

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• Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

  Alan Shepard

  Challenges, Pilots, Flight

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• The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

  Simon Sinek

  Curves, People, Population

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• It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.

  Grace Slick

  How You Feel, Littles, Stuff

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• The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

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• There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Character, Stories

  Interview with Victor Medina, www.cinelinx.com. April 11, 2012.

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• The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

  Charles Stanley

  Choices, Three, Faces

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• Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Real, Later In Life

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• To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Circumstances, Nations

  "The World's Great Speeches" edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna, 1999.

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