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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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"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners." »Josh Billings
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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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"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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"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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"Calamity is the test of integrity." »Samuel Richardson
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"I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility." »John Ruskin
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." »Conte Vittorio Alfieri
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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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"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." »John Holt
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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 the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Truth is what stands the test of experience." »Albert Einstein
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." »Vernon Sanders Law
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"Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men." »Seneca
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"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory." »Georges Duhamel
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"An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends." »Cicero
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"Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson." »Vernon Law
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"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." »Jacques Martin Barzun
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