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“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

“Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.”

Should President Powerful Tests Accounts Critical Chiefs Operations Commanders Bin Laden Exhibits Commander In Chief Weighing

Author:Jon Meacham

“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“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.”

Thinking Should Writing Song Literature Cases Singing Tests Mere Merit Popularity Singing Songs Being Popular

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“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

“People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.”

People Should Wells Kind Might Religious Animal Dog Fronts Higher Jokes Tests Treats Companion Spells Backwards Higher Power

Author:Linda Blair

“Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.”

Thinking Should Eye Girl Tests Hollywood Screens Teenage Through The Eyes Teenage Girl

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.”

Should Two Different Sound Simple Failing Tests Complaining Two Things Protest Complaints Constructive

Author:Julian Baggini

“...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.”

Should Can Do Car Should Have Tests Motherhood Driving You Can Do It

Book:Hope Was Here

Source: Hope Was Here

“Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.”

Should Stories Song Lines Childhood Judgment Tests Maturity Adolescence Manhood Feats Rite Boyhood

Author:Jim Morrison

“We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.”

Should Ideas Different Hands Challenges Views Heard Ready Battle Tests Thirds Aim Agree Point Of View Criticize Comment New Ideas Second Hand

Book:Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

“Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.”

“Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over”

“It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.”

Source: Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

“Maybe careers aren’t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.”

“If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.”

Ifs Want Should Has Beens Done Use Eye Asks Hurt Animal Poor Seeing Tests Murder Prisoner Animal Rights It Hurts Perfume Rabbits Cosmetics Animal Cruelty Bunnies Manson Bunny Rabbits

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“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

“..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.”

Ifs Thinking Should Humans Heart Song Study Impossible Cry Built Tests Incredibles Reactions Robots Androids Landslides

Author:Mindy Kaling

“My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you subconsciously look for cues that she's the kind os person you should be with. That's assumption. If she passes the assumption test, you begin to get to know her to find out if she's appropriate for you. If she is, you're attracted. If, as you get to know her, the attraction is reinforced with joy or pain or both, you'll fall into infatuation. And if you manage to make a connection and attach to each other during infatuation, you'll move into mature, unconditional love.”

“teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.”

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Author:David Levithan

“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”

Men World Should Whole Courses Tests Thoughtful Despised Refinement

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.”

Giving Should Firsts Children President College Birth Should Have Tests Driving Sat Vehicle Institute

Author:Marilyn Manson

“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

“When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.”

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Author:Alfie Kohn

“It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions... A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or refute it.”

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Author:Karl Popper

“In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a warning sign that should prompt all of us to think through these issues very carefully.”

Thinking Should Humans Science Issues Week Tests Scientist Experiments Warning Tubes Prompts Embryos Warning Signs

Author:George W. Bush

“Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation...Our package not only responds to this challenge, but...is an opportunity that should create thousands of new businesses and millions of jobs in Europe.”

Should Jobs Political Opportunity Energy Challenges Millions Environment Generations Europe Tests Ultimate Climate Climate Change Packages Responding Our Generation New Business

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.”

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Author:David Allan Coe

“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.”

Feels Should Writing Three Produce Pride Tests Accomplishment Frightening Sense Of Accomplishment

Author:Gloria Steinem

“It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like cosmetics, food coloring, and floor polishes. Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market? Don't we already have an excess of most of these products? Who benefits from their introduction, except the companies that hope to profit from them?”

Should Kind May Used Suffering Animal Company Products Drug Benefits Tests Profit Saving Liberation Excess Introduction Polish Lipstick Cosmetics Animal Liberation Life Saving

Author:Peter Singer

“Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.”

Men Should Years Should Have Tests Every Man

Author:Barry Bostwick

“I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.”

People Thinking Should Taxes Tests Vote Literacy Polls

Author:Ann Coulter

“If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.”

“The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.”

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Author:Arthur Lynch

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