T Quotes
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“The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.”
Source: The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
“The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.”
“The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.”
“The factors facilitating the global emergence of pathogens shared between humans and animals are of particular importance because the diseases they induce have had major impacts on both human and animal health. This transfer of pathogens has ocurred for thousands, if not millions, of years and continues today.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.”
“The factors that contributed to my growth were many - finding someone who understood me, exploring the unconscious, awakening my latent love . . . but one star is brightest among all: the self. I found the source of livingness inside me, something I didn't even know existed.”
“The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.”
“The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'”
“The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.”
“The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.”
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.”
“The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.”
“The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself.”
Source: Killosophy
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.”
“The factory should be so production capable and responsive that it is basically synchronized with demand instead of being dragged by demand.”
“The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?”
Source: Funeral In Berlin
“The “facts” about Ali’s life are few, and come from Wallace’s writing. Wallace was a careful writer, but he naturally wrote through his own perceptions, memories, and filters.”
Source: "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
“The facts are - I did say I hoped it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated which I was not responsible for, I concluded it wasn't. I wrote about that in my book.”
“The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“The facts are always less than what really happened.”
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
“The facts are facts and records are records.”
“The facts are far less relevant than the stories we tell ourselves.”
Source: Blind Ambition: How to Go from Victim to Visionary
“The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of the chronic disease sucking the life out of our citizens and our economy - and, increasingly, the rest of the world. You name it, it’s caused by sugar: heart disease, cancer, dementia, type 2 diabetes, depression, and even acne, infertility and impotence.”
“The facts are in: diverse companies and teams consistently outperform all others. It's not only the smart thing and the right thing, it makes getting the job done much more interesting.”
“The facts are near to deception!”
“The facts are not always discussed, sometimes they are realized.”
“The facts are nothing,' she rejoined. 'I have only my own impressions to confess—and you will very likely think me a fanciful fool when you hear what they are. No matter. I will do my best to content you—I will begin with the facts that you want. Take my word for it, they won't do much to help you.”
Source: The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
“The facts are only beneficial for survival in bodily wandering. Apart from that, you are left on your own.”
“The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.”
“The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.”
Source: What is History?
“The facts are the facts the truth is the truth and the power of integrity is the knock out punch to the insecure liar.”
“The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.”
“The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.”
“The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.”
Source: The Burgess Boys
“The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.”
“The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.”
“The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.”
“The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.”
“The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.”
“The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.”
Source: The morning is near us: a novel
“The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.”
“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.”
Source: Selected poems
“The facts of life are conservative.”
“The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.”
“The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.”
Source: The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome
“The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.”
“The facts of life are very stubborn things.”
“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them; they can aim at them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them;”
Source: Swann’s Way
“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)
“The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another].”