"The exception tests the rule."
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"The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims."
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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."
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"I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness."
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"The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live."
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"Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time."
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"The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired."
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"It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason."
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"Misfortune is the test of a person's merit."
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"It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends."
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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment."
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"Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true."
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"In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music."
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"Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones."
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"Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought."
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"The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts."
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"In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power."
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"The test of all knowledge is experiment."
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"God created men to test the souls of women."
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"Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries."
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