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The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.
So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them.
We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.
Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.
Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.
If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
When you’re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.
Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
Doctors and hospitals should be paid for keeping their patients well. Paying them for doing more tests and surgeries creates bad incentives.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.
So much for keeping things business when it came to Jenna Darrow. If this had been a test, he figured he’d just failed it with flying colors.
I'm simply here to say guns should be owned by responsible people, and there should be high tests and a high bar to prove your responsibility.
It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.
The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.
I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.
Many of us will not survive our tests in mortality without help from others. And just as true: in helping others we keep our own spirits alive.
The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.
There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.
Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.
When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.
The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.
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.