I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
John Burroughs
LifeGoodFreedomBestThoughtTest
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Vittorio Alfieri
LiveCourageDieTestOften
The test of any man lies in action.
Pindar
ManActionTestLiesAny
Although measuring omega-3 levels in the blood seems like it would be an objective and accurate indicator of fish oil intake compared to using the subjects' reported dietary intake, this test does not accurately reflect long-term dietary intake.
Joel Fuhrman
FishBloodTestOilReflectSeems
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
Thom Gunn
HomeMyselfSelfKnowTestOutside
There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.
Peer Steinbruck
PlaceTestSeriouslyWorstMoreOut
Anything that's memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they're being asked to be experts. They just compare the film they finished watching to all of the other films that they've seen.
Andrew Dominik
MemorableTestWillWatchingFilm
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.
Samuel Richardson
LoveReadingWorthPersonTestTrue
I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
Shania Twain
StrengthWantTestSeemHereGuys
I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.
John Negroponte
ThinkTestCaptureCubaSovietArms
If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.
Ratan Tata
StandTestScrutinyPublicThen
I'm never going to go and test myself on Everest, but I sort of understand the psychology of people who might want to.
Tim Bevan
MyselfPeopleWantTestUnderstand
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.
Robert Sternberg
ResearchSelfCreateDoneTestHigh
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Margaret Chase Smith
CharacterEasyMoralTestTrueWay
My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we're out in public, her constant shock when somebody comes up and says something nice.
Rick Hoffman
MotherGreatParentsNiceTestOut
I'm not a policy oriented person. I'm constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
Angela Duckworth
WorkChildPersonTestMattersHard
The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.
Lee Kuan Yew
JusticeGreatnessLegalTestSystem
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.
Noah Feldman
ReligionConstitutionTestOfficeUp
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.
Michael Baden
SayTestBritishControversyBecause
ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.
James Comey
PeopleTestNeverImagineSomething
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
Ryan Reynolds
MeThinkYouTestMarathonAgainst
When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that's boring.
Amanda Seyfried
WorkStartYouTestBoringMore
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
Stephen Vizinczey
LifeCharacterNamePersonTest
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic.
George Dyson
TimeTestDigitalUsClearModel
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