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• I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Years, Age

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• I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

  Taylor Swift

  Study, Type, Persons

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• I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

  Daniel Tammet

  Memories, Skills, May

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• When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Country, Kids

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• When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Real, Animal, Two

  "How Smart Are Animals?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. February 9, 2011.

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• As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

  Alice Walker

  Fear, School, Done

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• A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

  Simone Weil

  Dream, Real, Joy

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

  Paul Wellstone

  Real, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

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• God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

  Ellen G. White

  Heart, Littles, Common

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• As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Fighting, Doctors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, Feminist, Monopoly

  Naomi Wolf answers your questions, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

  Tom Wolfe

  Simple, Men, Curves

  Tom Wolfe (2009). “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby”, p.147, Macmillan

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• If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Rights, Bears

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

  Julian Baggini

  Simple, Two, Sound

  "Don't complain less - do it better" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2010.

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• We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assure that we would all be resurrected. And He would make it possible for us to pass the test of life if we exercised faith in Him by being obedient.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Jesus, Jehovah, Christ

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• Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

  Abdul Kalam

  Yield, Numbers, Nuclear

  "India's A.P.J. Abdul Kalam". Interview with Time, content.time.com. November 30, 1998.

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• He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.

  J. K. Rowling

  Football, Clouds, Blue

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• I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Failing, Irrevocable, Refuse

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.158, Baen Books

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• If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it. If you are here to be offended, may your ire rise and your blood boil. If you seek an adventure, may this song sing you away to blissful escape. If you need to test or confirm your beliefs, may you reach comfortable conclusions. All books reveal perfection, by what they are or what they are not. May you find that which you seek, in these pages or outside them. May you find perfection, and know it by name.

  Christopher Moore

  Song, Laughter, Book

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• Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Integrity, Real, Adversity

  Charles R. Swindoll (2000). “Character Counts: Build a Life That Pleases God”

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• When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Powerful, Joy, Soul

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• If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Light, Effort, Soul

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Pnin”, p.85, Penguin UK

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• We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

  David Mamet

  Doe, Form

  "The Edge". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

  Bill Watterson

  Acid, Failing, Calvin And Hobbes Friendship

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• ...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

  Joan Bauer

  Motherhood, Should Have, Car

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.13, Penguin

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