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• If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Religious, Would Be

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• Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

  Ann Richards

  Responsibility, Doctors, People

  Source: bookpage.com

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• With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it's a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you - you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.

  Leslie Parrish

  Blessing, People, May

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Civilization, Culture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

  Benjamin Carson

  Religious, Character, Add

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• Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Motivational, Permission, Asks

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• The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

  Ray Bradbury

  Issues, Students, Politician

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Congratulations on passing your test! Your HIV positive.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Congratulations, Humor

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• She failed her drivers test. She couldn't get used to the front seat. It took her four lessons to learn to sit up.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Four

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• I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write … This is a true freestyle in general. I put a beat, I said some stuff, I retain ideas, I do it again, with a particular intonation, I test, and especially I record live.

  Young Thug

  Writing, Ideas, Records

  "We Translated Young Thug’s French Interview So You Don’t Have To" by Carl Lamarre, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. September 8, 2015.

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• I went to law school which is a 3-year program in the US that is focused primarily on memorizing certain doctrines and taking exams that test whether you can apply those doctrines to help prepare for the bar exam. If you are lucky, you get a few classes where you are encouraged to think more critically and read critical texts rather than just casebooks, and perhaps write a paper that is not a legal memo or brief.

  Dean Spade

  Writing, School, Thinking

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I tell people it's like shopping for a car.People are taking candidates out for a test drive, seeing what they like.

  John Thune

  Shopping, People, Car

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.

  Henry Rollins

  Stories, Environment, Jokes

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• The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.

  Jeb Bush

  Religious, Office, United States

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• Standardised tests cannot capture all, but on the other hand, students who are not capable of doing well on standardised tests are not well-equipped to thrive in today's world and so it's important for teachers to ensure that students gain the foundation necessary to meet the baseline educational standards these tests represent.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, Educational, Hands

  Source: www.economist.com

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• The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're finding fertile material. Whether it's in a phrase like "going over like a lead balloon" or "a needle in a haystack," or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond, we're finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. It might not be correct, but we can test out if it's true.

  Adam Savage

  Believe, People, Phrases

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

  Sam Ervin

  Science, Century, Witchcraft

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• They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.

  Samuel Butler

  Writing, Cat, Men

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4166, Delphi Classics

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• A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Men

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• The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Acceptance, Ideas, Competition

  Abrams v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1919)

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• For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.

  Barry Commoner

  Country, Ghetto, Simple

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• ... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Book, Evil, Holy

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• Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

  Robin Roberts

  Cancer, Thinking, Challenges

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