Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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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.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
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You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.
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Most often, qualifications are defined by the credentials of the person who last held the job. If that is to continue to be the litmus test, white males will continue to be the top choice on any list, if the interviewer is also a white male.
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Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
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Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses ground sometimes and it doesn’t mean anything. It’s the way life works. This is hard to understand in the moment. You get to thinking about the girl who rejected you, the job you got fired from, the test you failed, and you lose sight of the big picture — the fact that life has a beautiful way of remaking itself every few weeks.
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Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.
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One player doesn’t change a team. A team changes when everyone pushes together for the same side.
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Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
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Every man should be khan in his own home.
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Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.
