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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To lead people walk behind them.
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How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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It's always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that's always kind of aspired to make movies that are impossible to market.
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Far off down the road, through the lazily drifting snowflakes, they could hear the merry sound of sleigh bells. Their gay little tinkling flying ahead of the sleigh and lighting up the night with sparks.
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Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.
