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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
Author:
William Wilson
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As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
Author:
John Whittier
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But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.
Author:
Robert Sternberg
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In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
Author:
Robert Sternberg
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That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
Author:
Tony Snow
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There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.
Author:
Martha Smith
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Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.
Author:
Gene Shalit
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And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.
Author:
John Sexton
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
Author:
Erwin Schrodinger
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There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
Author:
Thomas Sargent
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I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.
Author:
James Randi
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
Author:
Karl Popper
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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
Author:
John Perkins
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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.
Author:
Bill Owens
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Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.
Author:
Robert Nozick
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Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.
Author:
John McKinley
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The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.
Author:
Todd McFarlane
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Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.
Author:
Herbie Mann
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If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
Author:
Max Laue
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Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.
Author:
Serge Lang
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At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
Author:
Barnaby Keeney
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I still have nightmares about taking tests.
Author:
Bruce Jenner
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
Author:
Tab Hunter
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Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Author:
Kathryn Hulme
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We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
Author:
Buck Henry
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One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
Author:
Marvin Hamlisch
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In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.
Author:
Conrad Hall
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And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.
Author:
Merle Haggard
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Author:
Arnold Glasow
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One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Author:
Arnold Glasow
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There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.
Author:
Teri Garr
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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.
Author:
Bill Frist
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I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
Author:
Brendan Fraser
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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.
Author:
E. Forster
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I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
Author:
Peggy Fleming
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I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
Author:
Suzanne Farrell
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Author:
Sam Ervin
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The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower
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The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.
Author:
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.
Author:
John Cooper
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Author:
Richard Branson
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The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
Author:
Walther Bothe
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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.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.
Author:
Michael Baden
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
Author:
Ralph Allen
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Author:
Chinua Achebe
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
Author:
M. Abrams
