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• Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Done, Consensus

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• In each meditation session, we gather knowledge about the mind through observation, questioning, and testing. We do this over and over, until we gradually develop a meaningful understanding of our own mind.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Meaningful, Knowledge, Meditation

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• The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It's not testing you. It's benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrater. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation. It is excited anticipation.

  Esther Hicks

  Expectations, Want, Emotion

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• There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.

  Stella Chess

  Daughter, Mistake, Mean

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• I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.

  Christian Bale

  Jobs, Thinking, Makeup

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

  John Michael Hayes

  Running, Drinking, Years

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• Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy:
  (a) I think, therefore I am; or
  (b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but
  (c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife.

  Tom Holt

  Thinking, Wife, Groups

  Tom Holt (2009). “Ye Gods!”, p.169, Hachette UK

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• Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.

  Mike Tyson

  May, Tests, Way

  "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

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• All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!

  Brian Tracy

  Want, Pay, Needs

  Source: productivemag.com

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• Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Cake, Age, Cost

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• I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

  Noah Baumbach

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

  Emily Oster

  Children, Miscarriage, Decision

  "'Expecting Better' pregnancy advice" by Emily Oster, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.

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• Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

  Jamais Cascio

  Tunnels, Wind, Strategy

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• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  Nate Silver

  Real, Testing Yourself, Answers

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• Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.

  Ruth Graham

  Fall, Two Sides, Temptation

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• Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Real, Two, Tools

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• About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

  Barry Boehm

  Downtime, Bugs, Programming

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• With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Eye, Bugs, Enough

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• Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

  George Soros

  Successful, Views, Investing

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Long, Gettysburg

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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• Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

  Burt Rutan

  Understanding, Marketing, Testing Yourself

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• When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Believe, Writing

  "‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Recap: Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2012.

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• An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Cutting, Drug, Abuse

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• We have to make education a priority, but all this debate about education and testing is almost beside the point. We only spend a fraction of the money on education that we spend on arms buildups. Under a Kucinich administration, education becomes one of the top domestic priorities. We put money into it. We cause the government to be vitally involved in it. And we make sure our children have the love of knowledge.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Education, Children, Knowledge

  "Kucinich: Osama Should Not Be Assassinated". The Slate Interview, www.slate.com. September 12, 2007.

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• Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

  Walt Whitman

  School, Humanity, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1406, Delphi Classics

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