Quotes 61 till 80 of 146.
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of children.
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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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See first, think later, then test. But always see first.
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Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
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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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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
On War (1832) -
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.
A Crash Course for Central Bankers, Foreign Policy (September/October 2000) -
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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