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Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.”

Wells May Mother Integrity Ethics Tests Invention Calamity Moral Ethics

Book:Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage

Source: Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage

“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.”

Firsts Persons Dies Reading Tests Relation Deceased

Book:THE

Source: THE

“On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.”

Two Space Standards Tests Backgrounds Pilots Crew Commanders Astronaut Space Shuttle

Author:Sally Ride

“The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.”

Cases Information Tests Court Microsoft Monsanto Antitrust Information Science

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.”

Mind States Spirit Basketball Approach Tests Profound Coaching Concentration Motivational Sports Teamwork State Of Mind Togetherness Critical Spirit

Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“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.”

Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

“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.”

World Children Nations Race Achievement Tests Disappear Score Gaps Massachusetts Test Scores

Author:Mitt Romney

“The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.”

Sex Relationship Behavior Tests Patterns Behavior Patterns

Author:Alfred Adler

“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.”

“If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.”

Ifs Decision Policy Tests Guidance Staff

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.”

Needs Ideas Helping Decision Support Perspective Tests Hearing Range Marketplace Consultation

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”

Men Firsts Mean Understanding Can Do Opinion Doubt Relationship Humility Tests Great Men Hesitation

Author:John Ruskin

“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”

Men Firsts Believe Motivational I Believe Humility Tests Great Men Hesitation Haughty Pride And Humility Humble Man Humility Leadership Humility And Leadership

Book:Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

“With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.”

Way Made Certain Audience Laughing Tests Blow Hunting Expecting Good Will Wrong Way Robins Conducting Screening Will Hunting

Author:Gus Van Sant

“In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.”

Spirit Tests Experiments Data Yield Fierce

Author:Adam Savage

“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.”

Writing Years Two Helping Literature Creative Honor Tests I Realized Journalism Two Years Graduates Creative Writing Aces

Author:Bob Schieffer

“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.”

Successful Theory Tests Accepted Mathematical Consistent Description Accurate Quantum Framework Quantum Theory

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.”

People Lasts Left Saws Our Lives Picks Tests Last Time

Author:Lisa See

“I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!”

People Thinking Should Given Parent Capable Tests Drivers Being A Parent

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.”

People Thinking Should Years Has Beens Art Hard Form Given Parent Millions Capable Draws Tests Drivers Being A Parent

Author:Maurice Sendak

“That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?”

Children Mother Father Parent Loss Tests Critical Love Loss Loss Of A Parent

Author:Maurice Sendak

“The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.”

Trying Looks America Culture Fighting Language Community Policy Promise Tests Iraq Immigration Treated Welcome Canada Shore Mexico Inferiors Latino Haiti Immigration Policy

Author:Al Sharpton

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”

Men Love Life Happiness Success Women Attitude Family Tests Anger Behave Quarrels Breeding Philanderer

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.”

Children Important Parent Interest Family Tests Parenting Profession

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

Inspirational Whole Action Lying Courses Leadership Secret Leader Military Habit Tests Meetings

Book:The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Source: The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev

“You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.”

Knows World Tests Pilots

Author:Alan Shepard

“But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.”

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