"Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action."
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"The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway."
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"The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality."
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"Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate."
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"No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof."
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"Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity."
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"People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one."
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"I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action."
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"Technique is the test of sincerity."
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"Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle."
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"The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity."
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"England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match."
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"If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine"
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"There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz."
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"I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture."
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"North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently, the nuclear bomb didn't work well because it was made in Korea."
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"The longer the test the better you feel when it's over."
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"As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin."
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"What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time."
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"Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test"
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