"He who does not answer the questions has passed the test."
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"How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?"
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"Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short."
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"The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become."
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"The test of any man lies in action."
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"I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool."
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"The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general."
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"[Economy] is flat on the floor, and the paramedics have arrived. And they shouldn't argue about whether they put the resuscitation equipment a quarter of an inch this way or a quarter of an inch this way, or they shouldn't start criticizing the patient, because he didn't have a blood pressure test or something like that. They should do what's needed right now."
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"Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man."
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"Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given."
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"I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football."
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"The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good."
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"If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience."
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"Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave"
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"Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning."
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"For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy."
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"They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady"
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"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
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"When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it."
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"You have to say, whatever it is that I say or do or think or teach must be something that will be consistent with who Jesus Christ was. So that is your ultimate litmus test, not that you've got specific words to say, whatever they may be saying. It is what is being said. They're consistent with the revelation of God that we encounter in Jesus."
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