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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug
Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
David Herbert Donald 
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
John Acton
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
Wally Schirra
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
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The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.
Henry M. Morris
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What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
Lionel Blue
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
W. G. Sebald
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