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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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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The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words.
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I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
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When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.
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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.
