A Quotes
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“All abusive systems are facilitated by bystanders, whose awareness of what is disavowed is always partial, resulting in a state of knowing and not-knowing. As dynamics shift, bystanders may behave like victims—passive, helpless, frightened and frozen, or like perpetrators—taking vicarious and voyeuristic pleasure in abuse or actively aiding and abetting the abusers.”
“All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.”
“All accomplishment is the result of ignoring the past. Don’t care about the bad things someone said to you or did to you. It’s not important at all. Create what you want.”
“All accusation is of the devil, no matter where it comes from. It is just as dangerous to accuse others as it is to give the accuser room in your own life. The accuser gives no hope. God does not accuse us, but He does give us promptings that bring light and hope.”
“All achievement should be measured in human happiness.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.”
Source: The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity
“All achievements – all feats of excellence, rise from the protoplasmic realm of the brain.”
Source: 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
“All achievements begin with the simple cognitive faculties known as perception and imagination. Expand your perception. Expand your imagination. Be aware of your inner strength. Realize yourself. Realize your abilities. Be sincere to nobody else, but yourself. Keep walking on the path of bravery. Keep walking on the path of your passion. Keep walking, and do not stop until you reach your goal. And remember, there will always be another goal to be achieved. So, have pleasure from the pursuit.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”
Source: Think & Grow Rich
“All achievers had plans that they clearly listed or outlined and run to their fulfillment. If you want to make it as they did, you have to make a plan that defines your purpose; you must write out and clearly define who you are and who you want to be, what you have to do to be that person and how it will be done.”
Source: Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
“All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.”
“All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations, and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsrooms consider their missions.”
“All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.”
“All across Italy, as Parasecoli tells me, food is used to identify who is Italian and who is not. But dig a little deeper into the history of Italian cuisine and you will discover that many of today's iconic delicacies have their origins elsewhere. The corn used for polenta, unfortunately for Pezzutti, is not Italian. Neither is the jujube. In fact, none of the foods mentioned above are. All of them are immigrants, in their own way--- lifted from distant shores and brought to this tiny peninsula to be transformed into a cornerstone of an ever-changing Italian cuisine.
Today, jujubes are better known as Chinese dates. It was likely in Asia that the plant was first cultivated, and where most are still grown. By the time of the Roman Emperor Augustus, at the turn of the first millennium, the tree had spread to parts of the eastern Mediterranean where, according to local tradition, it furnished the branches for the thorny crown of Jesus Christ. Around the same time, Pliny the Elder tells us, a Roman counselor imported it to Italy.
The Romans were really the first Italian culinary borrowers. In addition to the jujube, they brought home cherries, apricots, and peaches from the corners of their vast empire, Parasecoli tells me. But in the broad sweep of Italian history, it was Arabs, not Romans, who have left the more lasting mark on Italian cuisine.
During some 200 years of rule in Sicily and southern Italy, and the centuries of horticultural experimentation and trade that followed, Arabs greatly expanded the range of ingredients and flavors in the Italian diet. A dizzying array of modern staples can be credited to their influence, including almonds, spinach, artichokes, chickpeas, pistachios, rice, and eggplants.
Arabs also brought with them durum wheat--- since 1967, the only legal grain for the production of pasta in Italy. They introduced sugar cane and citrus fruit, laying the groundwork for dozens of local delicacies in the Italian south and inspiring the region's iconic sweet-and-sour agrodolce flavors. Food writers Alberto Capatti and Massimo Montanari argue that Arabs' effect on the Italian palate was as profound as it was in science or medicine--- reintroducing lost recipes from antiquity, elevated by novel ingredients and techniques refined in the intervening centuries. In science, this kind of exchange sparked the Renaissance; in food, they argue, one of the world's greatest cuisines.
Today, in Italy's north, where African influences give way to more continental fare, Italian cuisine leans heavier on crops taken from Indigenous peoples in the Americas: tomatoes, beans, pumpkins, zucchini, peppers, and corn, which is used to make polenta. Cultural exchange moved in the other direction as well. As millions of Italians left for the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries, Italy's culinary traditions were remixed and revolutionized again. Italian Americans pioneered a cuisine that would become almost unrecognizable to the old country: spaghetti and meatballs, chicken Marsala, fettuccine Alfredo, deep-dish pizza.”
Source: The Best American Food Writing 2023: Eye-Opening Essays on Culture, Inequality, and Justice
“All across my home state, throughout the South, and around the country, LGBT people and their families are seeking basic respect and dignity. This victory is an essential step on the journey toward full equality for all.”
“All across the country, people felt it was the wrong thing. All across the country, people felt it was the right thing. All across the country, people felt they'd really lost. All across the country, people felt they'd really won. All across the country, people felt they'd done the right thing and other people had done the wrong thing. All across the country, people looked up Google: what is EU? All across the country, people looked up Google: move to Scotland. All across the country, people looked up Google: Irish Passport Applications. All across the country, people called each other cunts. All across the country, people felt unsafe. All across the country, people were laughing their heads off. All across the country, people felt legitimised. All across the country, people felt bereaved and shocked. All across the country, people felt righteous. All across the country, people felt sick. All across the country, people felt history at their shoulder. All across the country, people felt history meant nothing. All across the country, people felt like they counted for nothing. All across the country, people had pinned their hopes on it. All across the country, people waved flags in the rain. All across the country, people drew swastika graffiti. All across the country, people threatened other people. All across the country, people told people to leave. All across the country, the media was insane. All across the country, politicians lied. All across the country, politicians fell apart. All across the country, politicians vanished...”
Source: Autumn
“All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.”
“All across the multiverse, this power chooses Peter Parker! But here, for once, it chose me! Here I get to be the hero! I don't have to be a damsel in distress! I get to save people! Me! It shouldn't matter how old I am! It should only matter that I'm willing to do the work!”
Source: Ghost-Spider, Vol. 2: Party People
“All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.”
“All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.”
“All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.”
“All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.”
“All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.”
“All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.”
“All action is vicarious faith.”
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
“All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated with the pure intelligence of Purusha, it is called the self-centred one, because in that state it becomes independent of all relations.”
Source: Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)
“All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.”
“All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.”
Source: On War
“All actions are of the non-Self complex (pudgal), they are of the prakruti (relative self) and they are not under Your control.”
“All actions are of the relative-self (prakrutik). Moksha (liberation) is the absence of attachment and abhorrence therein.”
“All actions can be justified in our minds. We can be at peace irrespective of the action and the outcome. It's just a play of our minds.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“All actions required for both worldly and Spiritual Success.
Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt. Grow... REPEAT!”
“All actions without love are just like dust in the air.”
“All active participants in a meeting can instinctively sense progress, and when progress isn’t being made, they get cranky and start looking for the exit. A referee’s job is to shape the meeting to meet the requirements of the agenda and the expectations of the participants. Style and execution vary wildly from referee to referee, but the defining characteristics are the perceptions of the meeting participants. A good referee not only makes sure the majority of the attendees believe progress is being made, but they’re aware of anyone who doesn’t believe that progress is being made at any given moment. And they’re looking for one thing . . . people checked out.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“All activism is fake activism.”
“All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.”
“All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.”
“All actors are born comedians at heart.”
“All actors are incredibly insecure.”
“All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.”
“All actors are on the run from some demon or other.”
“All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.”
Source: By Myself and Then Some
“All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.”
“All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.”
“All actors do what they do differently, and it doesn't matter.”
“All actors have their own unique path when it comes to the development of their training and careers.”
“All actors have to believe that our characters have a point that makes sense. Hopefully, they make sense to the crowd watching it, but at least he has to make sense in his own mind, in his own universe.”