"It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it."
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"In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test."
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"It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
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"We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity."
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"One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence."
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"The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood."
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"Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense."
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"If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short."
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"If they want to know if prostitutes are positive, they should test the Vice cops."
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"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
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"In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue."
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"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases."
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"Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it."
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"There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel."
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"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
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"For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside."
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"The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive."
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"Never test another man by your own weakness."
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"When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence."
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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."
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