"Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin."
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"The Heart that is not in love will fail the test."
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"I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds."
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"I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience."
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"Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view."
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"A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend."
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"Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test."
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"No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit."
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"In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa."
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"The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith."
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"He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith."
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"I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old."
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"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance."
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"The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it."
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"Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult."
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"The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is."
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"I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!"
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"Everything's a conspiracy and everything's not a conspiracy. You could look at this planet and go, "This is all a conspiracy. God made this to test us to see if we'll use the nukes." You can let your mind believe anything."
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"You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right."
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"The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct."
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