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The tender voice of new language is as the breaths of whispers carried on the light.

– Heather Lydia ThornhillRate it:

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

– John BurroughsRate it:

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

– John Burroughs, The Snow-WalkersRate it:

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

– P. J. O'RourkeRate it:

The term "learning disability" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around.

– U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of ChildrenRate it:

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

– Leonard CohenRate it:

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

– Rmy de GourmontRate it:

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

– Jacques Martin BarzunRate it:

The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

– Carl BarzunRate it:

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

– Dr. Dale E. TurnerRate it:

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 FitzgeraldRate it:

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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

– F. Scott FitzgeraldRate it:

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 ScottRate it:

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

– George Jean NathanRate it:

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.

– David Joseph SchwartzRate it:

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

– Logan Pearsall SmithRate it:

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

– ThorntonRate it:

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

– Thornton WilderRate it:

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

– Thomas HigginsonRate it:

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

– Ralph W. SockmanRate it:

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

– Henri Frdric AmielRate it:

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

– Elizabeth DrewRate it:

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.

– Alfred AdlerRate it:

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. RooseveltRate it:

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