Lois McMaster Quotes
I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.
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The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.
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What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
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Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
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The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
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What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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Most misfortunes are the result of misused time.
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The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.
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Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
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Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
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Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you your license?" Jack said. "Exactly, only without the filth and peasants," Aphrodite said.
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As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."
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For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away
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I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.
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I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will.
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I'll marry you if you admit that respect, admiration, and trust equals love.
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I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
