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Tag Name "Litmus" (23)

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Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at capitalism because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, Is this thing still flying? If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.
Alan Bean
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How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.
Arlen Specter
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I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
Jean Houston
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
John Pilger
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WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow their protestations to be brave publishers, and how much do they really want to lick the boots of power? Well, you can tell by their engagement with us and what they do.
Julian Assange
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Basically my new litmus test for people is, do they make me hear about a blow job they gave in the first ten minutes of us talking? And if they didn't then I can feel excited.
Lena Dunham
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There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
Naomi Wolf
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Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.
Peter Tatchell
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Birds are an ecological litmus paper.
Roger Tory Peterson
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A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.
Steven Soderbergh
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Words are the litmus paper of the mind.
Terry Pratchett
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My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?
Andrew Rannells
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If elected president I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. And the nominee will say, we are going to overturn this disastrous decision on Citizens United because that decision is undermining American democracy. I do not believe that billionaires should be allowed to buy politicians.
Bernie Sanders
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I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.
John McCain
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. When you have someone like Cheney who talks about endless war or war that might last fifty years, he could be Big Brother. You have Bush incessantly going on about the evil ones.
John Pilger
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga
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Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.
Mitt Romney
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A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
Olivia Wilde
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If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be Did you love with abandonment?
Robert V. Taylor
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This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are warm and gracious, but can we be gracious and mellow in the face of bitterness, jealousy, hatred, withdrawal? That's the litmus test of love.
Ronald Rolheiser
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Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.
Ted Sizer