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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds? — John Stuart Mill
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure. — Hannah More
Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object… — Claude Monet
Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be… — Dale E. Turner
Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them. — Michael Beckwith
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether… — Barack Obama
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of… — Wendy Beckett
The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end… — Joshua Reynolds
A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you… — Martin Niemoller
I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know.… — Vaclav Havel
I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than… — Kevin Pietersen
There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes. — Kevin Pietersen
Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be… — Ricky Ponting
A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test. — Roger McDonald
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I… — Robert Sternberg
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and… — William Graham Sumner
They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human… — Anna Deavere Smith
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by… — R. H. Tawney
Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us! — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we… — Rudolf Steiner

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