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• Uh... ," Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration. "I'm kidding," I said. "It passed the lethal-amulet test, remember?" "Not that. You keep it in your underwear drawer?" I hesitated, wondering why I was embarrassed. "Well, where do you put your elven magic?" I asked.

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Ivy, Magic

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• Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim. The reality check comes when Christlike attributes need to become visible in our lives—as husband or wife, as father or mother, as son or daughter, in our friendships, in our employment, in our business, and in our recreation. We can recognize our growth, as can those around us, as we gradually increase our capacity to 'act in all holiness before [Him]' (D&C 43:9).

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• Soooo," Arriane said. "Now you've met Randy." "I thought his name was Cam." "We're not talking about him," Arriane said quickly. "I mean the she-man in there." Arriane jerked her head toward the office where they'd left the attendant in front of the TV. "Whaddya think-dude or chick?" "Uh, chick?" Luce said tentativley. "Is this a test?" Arriane cracked a smile. "The first of many. And you passed. At least, I think you passed. The gender of most of the faculty here is an ongoing, schoolwiide debate. Don't worry, you'll get into it.

  Lauren Kate

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, People, Risk

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.303, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Who else is going?" I asked. He shrugged. "Just you and me." My mood promptly shot up past 'cheerful' and went straight to 'estatic.' Me and Dimitri. Alone. In a car. This might very well be worth a surprise test. "How far is it?" Silently, I begged for it to be a really long drive. Like, one that would take a week. And would involve us staying overnight in luxury hotels. Maybe we'd get stranded in a snowbank, and only body heat would keep us alive. "Five hours" "Oh." A bit less than I'd hoped for. Still, five hours was better than nothing. It didn't rule out the snowbank possibility, either.

  Richelle Mead

  Past, Luxury, Car

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• History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Past, People, Rorschach

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.

  Walker Percy

  Artist, Air, Canaries

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

  Jerry Spinelli

  School, Lasts, Pressure

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• I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Real, Air, Filling Up

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• Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Reading, Thinking About You, Young Love

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• Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

  Richelle Mead

  Sometimes, Dangerous, Situation

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American" that we had "exercised our right to peaceful free expression." But if we did it again, he didn't "know what action the state board of education might take against individual students." Translation: You've had your fun. Now sit down, shut up, and take the freakin' test. Or else.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Fun, Expression, Peaceful

  "After Ever After". Book by Jordan Sonnenblick, 2012.

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• Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.

  James Patterson

  Turkeys, Parent, Tubes

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• Maybe careers aren’t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.

  Susan Juby

  Fashion, Eye, Years

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• It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Break Through, Risk, Bud

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• I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

  Amy Tan

  Two, Expectations, Kind

  "The Joy Luck Club". Book by Amy Tan, 1989.

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• As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” Willingness is the single most important test.

  Orson Scott Card

  Giving Up, Self, People

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• Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Optimistic, Long, Waiting

  "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

  Michelle Moran

  Life, Sorry, Character

  Michelle Moran (2011). “Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution”, p.378, Broadway Books

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• Rose: "I was testing dorm security. It sucks." Dimitri: "You must be freezing. Do you want my coat?" Rose: "I'm fine. What are you doing out here? Are you testing security too?" Dimitri: "I am security. This is my watch." Rose: "Well, good work. I'm glad I was able to help test your awesome skills." - Rose Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov (Shadow Kiss)

  Richelle Mead

  Kissing, Skills, Rose

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• Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you your license?" Jack said. "Exactly, only without the filth and peasants," Aphrodite said.

  P. C. Cast

  Taken, Waiting, Filth

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• Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

  Libba Bray

  School, Appreciate, Understanding

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.6, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Want, Sincerity, Compare

  Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.

  Dossie Easton

  Real, Love You, Love Is

  Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (1997). “The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities”, Greenery Pr

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• At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule.

  Harun Yahya

  Expression, Acting, Attention

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