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“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.”

Humans Light Age Justice Dark Human Beings Liberty Moral Christianity Greater Society Civilization Equal Tests Universal Slave Goddess Toys Savages Sentimental Dark Ages

Author:George William Curtis

“I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.”

Wells Age Artist Example Tests Absolutes Test Of Time

Author:Giorgio Armani

“To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.”

“Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.”

Reason Age Religion Faith Tests Universal Birthday Formulas Submit Metaphysics Testing Corny Acid Age Of Reason

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.”

War Reality Seems Age Poetry Found Lost Speak Memories Simple Daughter Tests Accounts Intuition Fantastic Revolt Unreal Actuality Artifice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”

Firsts Age Next Generations Middle Shapes Tests Stress Guilt Species Burden Scales Grades Forty Fitness Imperatives Middle Ages My Generation Godliness

Book:Making Sense

Source: Making Sense

“Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.”

“A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.”

Art Age Form Turns Fall Pieces Draws Concepts Tests Convince Works Of Art Artificial Pale Verification

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.”

Age Humanity Culture Middle Battle Tests Middle Ages Cheaper

Book:Dear Me

Source: Dear Me

“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

Life Children Said Government Age Moral Shadow Tests Treats Sick Dawn Disability Twilight Elders Elderly Needy Handicaps Handicapped Light And Shadow Senior Citizen

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.”

Age Jobs Young Challenges Ability Middle Tests Workers Cynical Decline Middle Ages Premature Unproductive Knowledge Workers

Author:Peter Drucker

“Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.”

“I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was. Her paternity test went a little something like this: “If it comes out black, its Darwin's and if it comes out white its Ray's.” This is how things were done in the trailer park.”

Ifs Littles Done Age Father Black White Tests Parks Rays Pregnant Trailers Trailer Park

Author:Kate Madison

“I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.”

People Doe Age Young Millions Audience Saws Tests Function Response Driving Curious Release Drivers Youtube Phenomenal Texting Texting And Driving

Author:Werner Herzog

“In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.”

Knows Way Years Said Different Age School America Three Language Half Four Six Smart Tests Moved Grades Smarter They Said Schooling Very Smart Jamaica

Author:Grace Jones

“I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.”

Knows Way Age Taught Tests Bottom African American Categories Asian Latino Pacific Anomalies Checklists Caucasian Pacific Islanders

Author:Jordan Peele

“Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.”

Should States Age Born United United States Citizens Tests Proposal Residents Jest

Author:Eric Liu

“I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.”

Feels Years Children Stills Age Lines Results Tests Realising

Author:Adora Svitak

“The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.”

Men Age Wise Tests Critics Cynical Fads Apathetic

Book:Self Analysis

Source: Self Analysis

“They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady”

Ifs Age Suffering Trouble Prove Tests Remedy Prove It Malady

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.”

People Way Care Age Funny Young Fear Society Civilization Members Tests Old Age Our Society Helpless Old People Elders Helplessness This Society Deserted Senior Citizen

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.”

Love Children Stories Age Fall Parent Realizing Cases Birth Promise Lucky Tests Falling In Love Wander Realization Settling Phrases Mortality Story Of My Life Birth And Death

Author:Mitch Albom

“The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.”

Stills Two Age Failing Unique Tests Males Driving Kingdoms Maturity Thirty Grades Chagrin

Book:The Last Dragonslayer: Last Dragonslayer

Source: The Last Dragonslayer: Last Dragonslayer

“Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.”

Age Science Faith Morality Evidence Tests Accounts Method Experts Superstitions Cop Traffic Mystical Sovereignty Inquiry Rabbits Infallibility

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.”

Ifs Reason Age Authority Dignity Criticism Tests Claims Lays Critics Sincere Legislation Examination Accord Sacredness Tribunals Exemption

Book:The Critique of Pure Reason

Source: The Critique of Pure Reason

“The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.”

Writing Age Literature Please Tests

Author:Gerald Brenan

“I really don't get nervous when I perform - it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!”

Feelings Kids Age Tests Exciting Yeah Nervous Classroom

Author:Alexa Vega

“Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.”

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