#test

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies? ↗

— Sophocles

#mockery #our #sweetest

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. ↗

— Sophocles

#deed #going #ground #i #i see

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others. ↗

— George Soros

#compatible #degree #freedom #greatest #interests

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#absurd #amendment #any #constitutionally #contests

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. ↗

— John H. Speke

#africa #civilisation #describe #european #evil

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#lack #realize #wisdom

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#choices #difficulties #due #face #faith

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#artistic #character #displayed #earth #genius

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#collecting #committing #did #i #larger