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"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former." »Horace Mann
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes." »Carl Sandburg
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"If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure." »Author Unknown
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"More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity." »T. S. Eliot
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"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." »Ralph W. Sockman
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"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." »Ralph W. Sockman
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"This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go." »Unknown
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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
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"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." »Milan Kundera
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"Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart." »R. Buckminster Fuller
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"...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune." »Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor
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"As an answer on any test, the best of you will always be better than the least of you." »Chase LeBlanc
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." »Conte Vittorio Alfieri
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"I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility." »John Ruskin
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"Calamity is the test of integrity." »Samuel Richardson
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"Ridicule is the best test of truth." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." »William Lyon Phelps
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"See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that." »Douglas Adams
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"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it." »Laurence J. Peter
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"We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual." »George F. Will
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"Truth is what stands the test of experience." »Albert Einstein
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"Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth." »George Crabbe
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another." »Odell Shepard
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"Your Hardship is a test of friends and friendship" »The Omani Shed
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"On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength." »Billy
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"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet." »Chinese Proverb
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