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• The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fairness, Truthful, Trueness

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• We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

  Alain de Botton

  Survival, Safe, Vain

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wise, Smart, School

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• The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

  Neal Shusterman

  Men, Suffering, Measure Of A Man

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “UnWholly”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Faith, Fighting, Christian Inspirational

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• Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

  Junot Diaz

  Honesty, Love Is, Challenges

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• For a moment, Jason could only stand there in the hallway with his nose pressed up against the cold wood of her door. After a few seconds, he knocked politely. Taylor whipped open the door, unamused. Jason grinned at her. “I just gotta ask: Where did you get the whole ‘all the cute girls run around naked’ thing?” “I defend sexual harassment cases, Mr. Andrews,” she replied coolly. "I’ve seen and heard things even you haven’t thought of.” “Care to test out that theory?” She slammed the door in his face again.

  Julie James

  Cute, Girl, Running

  Julie James (2008). “Just the Sexiest Man Alive”, p.84, Penguin

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• Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

  David Levithan

  Love Someone

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• Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Grateful, School

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.356, Bantam

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• Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded. "Mithras was born from rock," Annabeth said, hoping she was right. "He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch." The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly. "The big mother knows all!" a ghost cried. "That is our most closely guarded secret!" Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Rocks, Secret

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• We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor’s wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that’s when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn’t wave it until you’re about to put it to the test.

  Ken Follett

  Integrity, Lying, Kissing

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.2432, Penguin

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• Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

  Noam Chomsky

  Creative, Inquiry, Passing

  "Noam Chomsky Spells Out the Purpose of Education" by Josh Jones, www.openculture.com. November 8, 2012.

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• There is a little narrowing to his eyes at the end of it that makes me understand that this is a test. Whether or not I'm brave enough to go into the stall with Corr after yesterday morning, after I've had time to think about what happened. The thought of it makes my pulse trip. The question is not if I trust Corr. The question is if I trust Sean.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Morning, Eye, Thinking

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.272, Scholastic UK

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• In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

  George Orwell

  Energy, Get Money, Virtue

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing stays the same it all gets crushed. It all gets broken. It all passes with time. Only the moment you're in has any meaning." "There are things that stand the test of time, there are things that last. Like love." "Love theres nothing more fragile or ephereal. Love is like fire on a rainy day: you've got to spend all your time protecting it, feeding it, tending it because if you don't it goes out." "There are some loves that last." "No, what lasts is the pain that comes after love.

  Guillaume Musso

  Pain, Rainy Day, Love Is

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• The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

  Lew Wallace

  Love Is, Action, Willing

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.23, XinXii

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• It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an ongoing basis, not just every now and then, if we´re going to realize true inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment.

  Surya Das

  Wise, Patience, Teacher

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• Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

  E. M. Forster

  Thoughtful, Men, World

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.424, Delphi Classics

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• So much for keeping things business when it came to Jenna Darrow. If this had been a test, he figured he’d just failed it with flying colors.

  Tina St. John

  Color, Flying, Ifs

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• One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Attention, Examination, Labs

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• What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

  Iris Murdoch

  Passion, Long, Admiration

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.46, Penguin

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• Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.91, Penguin Books India

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• Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

  Neal Shusterman

  Men, Suffering, Easy

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• It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hurt, School, Character

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• Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

  Daniel Keyes

  Book, Writing, Son

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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