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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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"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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"All reactionaries are paper tigers." »Mao Zedong
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"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way." »Ernest Hemingway
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"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." »Juan Ramon Jiminez
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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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"If they give you lined paper, write the other way." »William Carlos Williams
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"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart..." »William Wadsworth
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours." »A. M. Rosenthal
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"A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood." »Mark Ardis
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"Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state." »Kathleen Norris
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"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style." »Alan Simpson
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"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." »Bertha Flowers
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"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." »John Swinton
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"It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs." »Stanislaw Ulam
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"The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." »Pablo Picasso
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"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." »Gene Fowler
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"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money." »Joey Bishop
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." »Conte Vittorio Alfieri
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"Calamity is the test of integrity." »Samuel Richardson
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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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"Ridicule is the best test of truth." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility." »John Ruskin
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"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward." »Robyn Davidson
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