Quotes with trial

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  • George Bernard Shaw It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill James It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Lew Wallace One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
    Lew Wallace
    American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of (1827 - 1905)
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  • Clark Kenneth People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
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  • Camille Paglia The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Smiles The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Aaron Hill There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Ben Goldacre There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Bob Ney This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Truth is the trial of itself
    And needs no other touch,
    And purer than the purest gold,
    Refine it ne'er so much.
    The Touchstone of Truth
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ambrose Bierce Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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