Quotes with tests

  • It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

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  • Benjamin Cardozo A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bill Owens A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Agnes Macphail Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Karl Popper Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
    Karl Popper
    Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902 - 1994)
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  • Ben Parr Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
    MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • A. N. Wilson IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Benjamin Watson Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Arnold Glasgow One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bill Frist Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Gail Sheehy The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Buck Henry We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
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