#test

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#early #failures #few #greatest #life

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#been #degree #describing #future #historical

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#assumptions #been #describe #embodies #even

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#believe #greatest #i #i think #really

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#different #different world #internet #movements #protest

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#causes #crash #dominant #economic #greatest

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#anyway #causes #even #fundamental #greed

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#children #considered #contest #divorce #ensue

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#government #intervention #left-wing #most #often

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#carrying #greatest #heads #home #husbands