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Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form — Laurence J. Peter
Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth. — George Crabbe
Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us. — Sam Smith
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius… — Daniel Dennett
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding… — John Bates Clark
Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the… — Karl Rove
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a… — Jane Addams
The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do… — Wolfgang Pauli
How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety is insurance. You… — David Suzuki
Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of… — Charles Lindbergh
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist, ... — Seth Godin
The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states.… — Joseph Story
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. — Tom Helm
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. — Richard Bach
The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would… — Diane Wood
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as… — Lewis Carroll
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half… — Harriet Martineau
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating.… — Mati Unt
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it,… — Helen Keller
Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of… — Janet Morris

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