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“There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.”
Source : "Philosophy in the Twentieth Century" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 133), 1982.
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“To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.”
Source : "The World's Great Speeches" edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna, 1999.
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“Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.”
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“But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.”
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“Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.”
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“Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.”
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“The sleeping fox catches no poultry.”
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“People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.”
Source : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005. 
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“Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.”
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“It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.”
