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Tests Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.
- The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
- There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a…
- I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they…
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
- Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. — Lord Acton
- Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is… — Walter Bagehot
- Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. — Ansel Adams
- It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. — Alfred Adler