| "When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes." »Thomas Alva Edison |
| "My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." »Henry Fielding |
| "One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune." »Lewis Lew Wallace |
| "Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial." »Sophocles |
| "I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit." »Mario M Cuomo |
| "Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." »Helen Keller |
| "Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are." »John Ruskin |
| "When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else" »George Stanley McGovern |
| "I think when you go on trial they should have a parrot there that says guilty or not guilty for you, as a sort of courtesy." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated." »Ronald Reagan |
| "These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial)" »Jeff Greenfield |
| "An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer." »Evelle J. Younger |
| "Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield |
| ""The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment." »Med Yones |
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