T Quotes
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“The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective, legislation has now gone so far that it may well be asked what purpose or plan there is or what possible outcome there can be from a system that confines the native within a legal status that has more in common with that of a born idiot than of any other class of British subject.”
“The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.”
“The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.”
Source: Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial
“The dominant life-form on Earth, perhaps in the Universe, is "The Biofilm." The consciousness of the biofilm appears to govern consciousness itself. A HUGE portion of what we consider "Our Thoughts" are in truth "Biofilmic Echoes," which we "read" or interpret as our thoughts.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“The dominant medicalised narrative suggested that being autistic made me somehow tragic, broken, and in need of fixing (…) indicating that there was something inherently wrong with me”
Source: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
“The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.”
Source: Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays
“The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.”
“The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do whatever you wanted -in the ads and in the articles, ignore your limitations, defy them. If you were an indecisive person, you could become a leader and wear lederhosen. If you were a housewife, you could become a glamour girl with rhinestone sunglasses. Are you slow witted? No worries -you can be an intellectual genius. If you're old, you can be young. Anything was possible. It was almost like a war against the self.”
“The dominant narrative is a horror story. People with Alzheimer's are perceived as zombies, bodies without minds, waiting for valiant researchers to find a cure. For Alice and me, the story was different. Alzheimer's was a time of healing and magic. Of course, there is loss with dementia, but what matters is how we approach our losses and our gains. Reframing dementia as a different way of being, as a window into another reality, lets people living in that state be our teachers — useful, true humans who contribute to our collective good, instead of scary zombies.”
Source: Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass
“The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.”
Source: Recollections and Letters
“The dominant passion of our time is fear…We are living in a post-technological Middle Ages. Our mentality is that of the medieval peasant serf who sees maleficent forces in nature…We are living in a society which has a horror of risk and therefore is afraid of its own shadow.”
“The dominant philosophy in today’s public university is called relativism, which categorically denies the existence of truth or moral absolutes. Those who are foolish enough to believe in such archaic notions as biblical authority or the claims of Christ are to be pitied—or bullied.”
Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck”
Source: The Call of the Wild
“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.”
“The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist."”
“The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.”
“The dominant strain of the twentieth century, whether emanating from Marx or Freud, has been self-awareness; we have lost the art of forgetting ourselves. Which means we have little chance of being happy, since so much of happiness consists of inner peace; of playing ostrich, in fact. To say nothing of the fact that all this psychological self-consciousness is rather vulgar...”
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
“The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.”
“The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.”
“The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.”
“The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation.”
“The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.”
Source: Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
“The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.”
“The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees.”
Source: Being and Time
“The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.”
“The dominator system spread beyond Europe to whatever Christian Authority could touch. The men in control continued to eat the symbolic body and drink the symbolic blood of their dominator culture.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.”
“The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after another, all kinds of decision we make that come back to our face. For example take an anorexic model that stops eating until she dies, or the bombs that a are thrown in a war and the effect they have on people, or even something simple as listening to a record that you like until you get bored of it and leave it in your shelf.”
“The Domino effect is strange; all fall when one falls but to get back up, everyone, on your own. To effect, be the cause.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“The Don looked around his cell, including the naked 30 year-old woman sprawled in his bed and steaming bowl of Mussels Marinara sitting in front of him. He was always famished after sex and couldn't envision a life on the outside that would limit all of the things he loved to do. In a way, being on the outside would be like going to jail for Don Vito.”
Source: Da' Neighborhood
“The DON of dons Triad is where the top three dons of the world meet to discuss both important and non-important things. Mostly with their naked bodies against the trees. It is a meeting with myself.”
“The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.”
Source: Books and Libraries: And Other Papers
“The Donald is not a master of the deal; he is a reckless, foolhardy craps dealer playing with house money. He doesn't care at all about the lives and fortunes of the human beings peopling this planet.”
Source: What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know: But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out
“The Donald Trump call in the president of Taiwan and of itself, as Henry Kissinger said, hasn't created some tremendous trouble in China. But what we don't know is whether this is just posturing or whether this is a policy change.”
“The Donald Trump I knew as a young reporter in New York was nothing if not media friendly. And for most of the past Republican primary, he was the most accessible major candidate. No one else was close.”
“The Donald Trump of Washington ends up being portrayed by all of these news stories that happen to be sourced by anonymous leakers. Every day in Washington at 5:30 there's a new bombshell in the Drive-By Media from an anonymous source once again informing us how incompetent, how ill-mannered, how ill-prepared, how in chaos, how out of touch Donald Trump is.”
“The Donald Trump phenomenon in the U.S. is mirrored completely by the Brexit phenomenon in the U.K. It's very similar forces. And what is interesting to me is there are two different groups that come together, who don't really agree with each other, but have come together in unity against, if you like, what is perceived as the status quo, or - and certainly what is a more center-right or center-left type of politics.”
“The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended to be tough on China. And don't forget, we have seen a lot of presidential candidates, memorably, Bill Clinton, who used to criticize George Herbert Walker Bush for coddling dictators and then take the much softer line with China once he's in office.”
“The Donald Trump trade doctrine is this. America will trade with any country, so long as that deal meets these three criterion: You increase the GDP growth rate, you decrease the trade deficit, and you strengthen the manufacturing base.”
“The Donald Trump who showed up at this press conference, though he did extend his hand to President Pena Nieto, say, I consider you a friend, he said he talked about first-generation, second-
generation, third-generation Mexican-American, he said - his words here - he considers them beyond reproach.”
“The donations are usually anonymous, because while philanthropy is a source of pride, philanthropy as the exit strategy of last resort from a comically bad investment isn't.”
Source: The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
“The donkey heard the book gives wisdom and ate it.”
Source: The New Land
“The donkey skin - burn it. But not until you find true love. You'll lose your chance at love forever if you shed you skin too soon.”
Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
“The Donkey
When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.
With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil's walking parody
On all four-footed things.
The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
I keep my secret still.
Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.”
“The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.”
“The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.”
Source: Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill
“The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations