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«One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.»
«The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.»
Author: Gail Sheehy (Author, Writer) | Keywords: develops, faced, tests
«Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.»
Author: Gene Shalit | About: Movies | Keywords: screen test, tests
«Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves / there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? / are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help / can you face him honestly?).»
«Standardized testing has become the arbiter of social mobility, yet there is more regulation of the food we feed our pets that of the tests we give our kids»
«Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.»
Author: Sam Ervin (Senator) | Keywords: polygraph, tests, witchcraft
«The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.»
Author: St. Ambrose | Keywords: crown, ruin, tempts, tests, the Devil
«There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment -- anywhere.»
«Peace hath higher tests of manhood.Than battle ever knew.»
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | Keywords: tests
«Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.»

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