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«At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.»
«Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.»
«It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.»
«It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.»
«Never forget that [God] tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.»
Author: Kathryn Hulme | Keywords: lukewarm, tests
«Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | About: Character, Testing, Time | Keywords: distance, horse, reveals, tests
«New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive»
Author: Jay Leno (Comedian, Host) | About: New Year | Keywords: acquaintance, auld, Eve, forgot, tests
«A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but Allah tests the heart.»
«Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.»
Author: Richard Bach (Writer) | About: Testing | Keywords: tests
«In the human condition, occasionally Maya enters and subjects people to various tests. Do not submit to Maya in any way.»

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