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Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

Find, Here, Alive

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good, America, Problem

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy

Life, Friendship, Simple

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori

Happiness, Child, Procedure

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Lisa See

Friendship, Time, True

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Alone, Wish, Others

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
Charles Stanley

Good, God, Matter

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Family, Freedom, Free

You have to test your ideas in a public forum.
Hillary Clinton

Public, Ideas, Forum

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good, America, Problem

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion, Good, Joke

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

Often, Landscape, Supreme

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
Mahalia Jackson

Money, Easy, Lord

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law

Experience, Teacher, Hard

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.
Pearl S. Buck

Fear, Society, Young

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

Down, Find, Before

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps

Respect, Him, Service

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett

Life, School, Lesson

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Havelock Ellis

Doubt, Sometimes, Means

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
Robert M. Hutchins

Fault, Paranoia

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. Wilson

Faith, Science, Human

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Society, Children, Morality

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

Character, True, Easy

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Diane Arbus

Life, Experience, Through

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
P. J. O'Rourke

Government, True, Often

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
Alice Walker

Best, Fear, School

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Jean Nathan

Real, Laugh, Him

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman

Experience, Comparison, Hypothesis

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Samuel Butler

Power, Write, Whether

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