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"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining." »Walter Lippmann
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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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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." »F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." »F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." »F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." »F Scott
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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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"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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"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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"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot
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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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"Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns." »Joseph Weizenbaum
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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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"Communications without intelligence is noise;
intelligence without communications is irrelevant." »Gen Alfred Gray, USMC
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"The “stream” we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence." »Albert Wiggam
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"Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"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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"Ridicule is the best test of truth." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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