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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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"Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Let the punishment match the offense." »Cicero
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"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition." »William Arthur Ward
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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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"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." »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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"When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes" »Christian Cardell Corbet
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"People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match." »Space Ghost, Space Ghost - Musical Bar-b-cue
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"We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed." »Rosalind Sussman Yalow
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"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse." »Ed Koch
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." »William Faulkner
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"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." »Muhammad Ali
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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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"Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match." »Isaac Asimov
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"I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire." »Charles A. Lindbergh
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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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"We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang." »Colley Cibber
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"In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure." »Jose Luis Chilavert, Goal keeper for Paraguay, said during France 98 World Cup (soccer/football)
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"If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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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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"Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on." »Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament
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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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