I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.
I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that. . . All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet.
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the Pap test.
Longevity can't be the only test of love.
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
The only journeys worth taking in life are those that test us to the very core
Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.
The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.
How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?. . . Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation. . . repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?
If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.
Power is a test - the test - of character.