"Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical."
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"Life is a test and this world a place of trial."
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"I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it."
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"It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal."
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"I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good."
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"If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season."
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"With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him."
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"Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna."
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"How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?"
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"Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena."
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"Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination."
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"I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test."
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"Everything is a test."
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"The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians"
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"It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding."
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"The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity."
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"Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test."
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"The only test of goods things is that they make us strong."
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"Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness."
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"Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure."
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