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“As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.”

Thinking May Doe Term Pleasure Share Prove Tests Mark Aim Beloved Unhappiness Venus Eros

Author:C. S. Lewis

“A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.”

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Author:Joel Salatin

“Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.”

Source: The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

“Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.”

Ifs Doe Real Might Faces Belief Fire Tests Practicals Command Shock Face To Face Pseudo

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Ready?" Tove asked without looking at me. He started walking before I answered. "Duncan, you don't need to come with us," I told him as I hurried after Tove. Duncan followed me the way he always did, but he slowed. "It's probably best if he does," Tove said, tucking his hair behind his ears. "Why?" I asked, but Duncan smiled, excited to be included. "We need someone to test on," Tove replied matter-of-factly, and Duncan's smile instantly faded.”

Ifs Way Needs Doe Said Matter Behinds Ready Hair Walking Tests Ears Excited Faded Duncan

Book:Trylle: The Complete Trilogy

Source: Trylle: The Complete Trilogy

“For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.”

Ifs Knows Doe Hate Dies Born Love Is Forever Honesty Goes On Tests Loyalty Tested Shantaram

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.”

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Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus.”

Doe Character Christian Jesus Left Attitude Tests Good Christian Blockades

Author:Lester Roloff

“Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.”

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Author:David B. Haight

“Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.”

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Author:Amy Chua

“Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by observation. So he reasons, compares facts, puts questions to them, and by the answers which he extracts, tests one by another. This sort of control, by means of reasoning and facts, is what constitutes experiment, properly speaking; and it is the only process that we have for teaching ourselves about the nature of things outside us.”

Thinking Men Mean Doe Has Beens Reason Facts Science Process Answers Existence Seeing Teaching Limits Tests Experiments Observation Compare Reasoning

Author:Claude Bernard

“But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe' or to anything? Has it any reference to electricity? or does it stand on the very foundation of matter-mass or inertia? then we feel the need of tests, whether they be comets or nebulae or laboratory experiments or bold questions as to the truth of received opinions.”

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Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.”

Ifs Way Trying Mean Doe Stills Shows Science Turns Black Water Prove Solutions Tests Blue Bones Experiments Sensitive Tested Charcoal Colorless Iodine

Book:Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory

Source: Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory

“Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.”

People Doe Matter Reason Light Truth Mouths Tests Golden Old People Babe Golden Rule

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.”

Humans Wells Doe Said Ends Problem Running Action Human Beings Our Lives Tests Thrive Hunters Tested Stagnation Problem Solvers Hunter Gatherers

Author:Art Buchwald

“Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.”

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Author:Janet Morris

“I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.”

Ifs Wells Doe Moral Tests Slavery Torture Abraham

Book:Arguably

Source: Arguably

“The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.”

Needs Doe Tests Adversity Operations Consideration Contracts Assistance Unconditional Cement Conditional Not Friends

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.”

Long Doe Ability Democracy Tests Property Likes Truest

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.”

Men Doe Real Character Christian Tests Tired Christian Inspirational Real Character

Author:Winston Churchill

“A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does."”

Mind Doe Sex Students Tests Association Funny Sex Snowstorms

Author:Honor Tracy