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The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person… — Richard John Neuhaus
To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst… — Roy Innis
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded… — Immanuel Kant
Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come… — George Carlin
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what… — Terence McKenna
It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves. — Tony Dungy
Test everything, including assumptions — Jeffrey Zeldman
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct. — Marcus Aurelius
Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me. — Bum Phillips
When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust. — Donald Bradman
Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation...Our package not only responds to this challenge, but...is an opportunity… — Jose Manuel Barroso
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. — Paul Tillich
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat… — E. M. Forster
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. — David Ben-Gurion
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do… — Woody Harrelson
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble… — Mark Twain
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan
In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. — Starhawk

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