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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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• There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Acceptance, Past

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• Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

  David Lloyd George

  Confused, Speech, Precision

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• The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.

  Dean Acheson

  Running, Long, Poor Nations

  "Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.

  Warren Buffett

  Love You, People, Age

  "Warren Buffett's Secret "10 Ways to Get Rich" Hits Hundreds of Sunday Newspapers" by Alex Crippen, www.cnbc.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I read a comment [about me] on YouTube that I thought would upset me — ‘Test pilot for pies’ — but I’ve always been a size 14-16 and been fine with it. I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn’t.

  Adele

  Sex, Pie, Upset

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• Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me.

  T. B. Joshua

  Hard Times, May, Hard

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• The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

  John B. Watson

  Consciousness, Tubes

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• Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

  Herb Elliott

  Training, Enthusiasm, Inspired

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

  Umberto Eco

  Heart, Spirit, Made

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.

  James P. Hogan

  Cheating, Opposites, Skills

  James P. Hogan (1983). “Code of the Lifemaker”, Del Rey

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• Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

  Arthur Helps

  Real, Civilization, Tolerance

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey. . . . God will take advantage of that if you let Him

  Henry B. Eyring

  Two, Listening, Trying

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• The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

  Henry M. Morris

  Supernatural Elements, Impossible, Divine

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• The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

  Henry Ford

  Men, World, Ability

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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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• To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

  George Gissing

  Understanding, Capacity

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• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Frustration, Men

  'The Statue and the Bust' (1863 revision) l. 246

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• Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change, innovation, and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks, and accept responsibility for making change happen.

  Charles E. Rice

  Leadership, Responsibility, Adventure

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• Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This is the crucial role. Followers judge leaders. Only if the leaders pass that test do they have any impact. The potential followers, if their judgment is poor, have judged themselves. If the leader takes his or her followers to the goal, to great achievements, it is because the followers were capable of that kind of response.

  Garry Wills

  Impact, Goal, Judging

  Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

  David O. McKay

  Real, Men, Church

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• In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

  Camille Paglia

  Real, Smart, Skills

  Playboy Interview, May 1995.

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• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

  E. B. White

  Believe, Fall, Opportunity

  "One Man's Meat". Book by E. B. White, 1942.

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• While we may continue to use the words
  smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may
  persist for certain purposes, the monopoly
  of those who believe in a single general
  intelligence has come to an end. Brain
  scientists and geneticists are documenting
  the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

  Howard Gardner

  Smart, Stupid, Believe

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• Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Love Is, Finals, Lord

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