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• My doctor told me I was going to be marginal at this test and he'd given me some hope that maybe I was going to be OK. But when I went in and did it I realized I wasn't going to be able to pass it so I've been working on accepting reality.

  Doug MacDonald

  Reality, Doctors, Able

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• If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

  Fredric Jameson

  Reality, Resistance, West

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

  John Battelle

  Dream, Reality, Google

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• It's a risk-reward thing. If I do go out and try and play and get hurt again, then I'm definitely out. I've got no chance to go. If I'm ready, then great. It's getting better. I've been doing a lot more in the last couple of days. I've got a day off (on Wednesday) and then hope to come back in on Thursday and really see where I am at and test it out. Hopefully I'm going to play this weekend but, in reality, we'll see.

  Steve Ralston

  Hurt, Couple, Weekend

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• The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Strong, Goods

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

  Robyn Davidson

  Inspirational, Freedom, Struggle

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

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• Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, all these things shall be for our experience, and our good.

  Robert D. Hales

  God, Jesus, Father

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• Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Wedding, Expectations, Rorschach

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• Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same hand. As soon as you cannot carry out this exercise you are reaching a dangerous state of incapacity and you should immediately take steps to warm up.

  Mors Kochanski

  Exercise, Hands, People

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• An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to emulate its author. For that, we should learn what we can of the whole experience of the subject, the hero's life, as it was before and after, and believe that trying to emulate the character it reveals is one tried way to prepare for the tests that might await us and gain hope that our courage will not be wanting in the moment.

  John McCain

  Inspirational, Believe, Hero

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• The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

  Nevil Shute

  Men, Pilots, Aviation

  Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

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• There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are flashing past their eyes, and they're flailing around in the cockpit. It just doesn't happen. You don't have time to talk. You're too damn busy trying to get out of the problem you're in to talk or ricochet around the cockpit. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom.

  Robin Olds

  Senior, Eye, Mean

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• When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.

  Ani DiFranco

  Years, Orange, Individuality

  Ani DiFranco (2011). “Ani DiFranco: Verses”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

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• When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Devil and Miss Prym”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength

  Paulo Coelho

  Enemy, Pretext

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• The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Journey, Finals

  Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa (2017). “Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

  Muhammad Ali

  Understanding, Levels, Harder

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Equipment, Neat

  Tiger’s World Challenge press conference, news.tigerwoods.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

  Ian Botham

  Team, Thinking, Two

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• Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

  James E. Faust

  Passion, Character, Climbing

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• In our hearts do we feel a sense of gratitude and devotion to the Father? Are we of one heart with Him to whom we owe everything? The test of our devotion to the Lord seems to be the way we serve Him.

  L. Tom Perry

  Gratitude, Father, Heart

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• Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality... The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Reality, Order, People

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• You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving, Welcome, Promotion

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 31, 2015

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• There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Art, Children, Age

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• The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.

  Karl Popper

  Games, One Day, Principles

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.32, Routledge

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