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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Winston Churchill
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.
Mitt Romney
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler
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