T Quotes
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“The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.”
“The mice were furious."
[...]
"Oh yes," said the old man mildly.
"Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats and duckbilled platypuses, but..."
"Ah, but they hadn't paid for it you see, had they?"
"Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
[...]
"Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one."
Only one word registered with Arthur.
"Mice?" he said.
"Indeed Earthman."
"Look, sorry - are we talking about the little white furry things with the cheese fixation and women standing on tables screaming in early sixties sit coms?"
Slartibartfast coughed politely.
"[...] These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front."
The old man paused, and with a sympathetic frown continued.
"They've been experimenting on you, I'm afraid.”
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to drive an argument home. People liked her both in the workplace and socially because she was so frank.”
“The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.”
“The micro facial expression of contempt when engaging leaders about preparing for their organisation's change is often the norm, matched only by their leadership of change knowledge”
“The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.”
“The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all,
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope.”
“The microcosm and the macrocosm are linked. You have to learn to retune into the universe. Ancient humanity knew how. We have forgotten what they learned. In fact, we have unlearned it. Let the universe in. Let it take the strain off your shoulders. Give the universe responsibility for your success in life. Don’t worry. It has the broadest possible shoulders. It can endure every stress and strain.”
Source: The Universe Has Your Back: Trust the Cosmos
“The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.”
“The microprocessor is a miracle.”
“The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.”
“The microscopic world became my obsession.”
“The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.”
Source: We
“The microwave clock spills over into midnight, and the marionette girl walks up the stairs to sleep in her puppet bed in the puppet house, filled with not-puppet people. They are made of flesh and blood, and she is made of wood and lies.”
Source: Dans La Peau D'Erica
“The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.”
“The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.”
Source: Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
“The mid-ninth-century thinker Anandavardhana, when arguing that it is rasa that makes literature literature, explains that it was to demonstrate this fact that “the grief of the first poet…was shown to be transformed into verse. For grief is the stable emotion of the tragic rasa.”11 The idea that the literary artwork is an expression of the author’s own emotion is summarized in an oft-quoted verse of Ananda’s: “If the poet is filled with passion, the whole world of his poem will consist of rasa; if not, it will be completely devoid of it.”
“The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.”
“The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.”
“The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.”
“The midday sun was leopardskin-dappled through the trees, painting a translucent rainbow in the fountain’s mist...”
Source: In the Shadow of Time
“The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.”
“The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.”
“The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom.”
Source: The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution
“The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.”
“The middle and working classes no longer think of the present society as structured around classes. Current opinion holds that the rich are deserving and the poor are not, while an incalculable number of people linger between the categories. A huge section of public opinion in the Western world tends to regard oppression and exploitation as residual abuses, not inherent features of a specific social order. The prevailing society is neither rationally analyzed nor forcefully challenged; it is prudently psychoanalyzed and politely coaxed, as though social problems emerge from erratic individual behavior.”
Source: The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
“The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.”
“The middle class in America has been devastated.”
“The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.”
“The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. They are working people in the upper part of the global income distribution. They might on average be happy that the Chinese are doing well, but they are not happy that the Chinese are doing well relative to them.”
“The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.”
“The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.”
“The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.”
“The middle class is growing that's the reality that nobody can stop.”
“The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things, who has a business background, has some appeal.”
“The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.”
“The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.”
Source: Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
“The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.”
“The middle class of America must pay some federal income taxes or this will no longer be America.”
“The middle-class standard of the independent self has increasingly become the default American standard for how to think, feel and act in the world…this middle class self is not just a matter of individual attitudes or beliefs; it is an understanding of what it means to be a person that is built into and promoted by the social machinery – law, politics, education, employment, media, and health care of mainstream American society. Although the independent self is widely accepted as the cultural standard, it is not the natural, normal, neutral or even the most effective way of being a person. Instead, it is a privileged and culture-specific understanding of what it means to be a person that flows seamlessly from the resources, opportunities, and experiences linked with middle-class American standing in society.”
Source: Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction
“The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.”
“The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.”
“The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.”
“The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.”
“The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.”
“The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That’s not one-nation conservatism; it’s two nations conservatism.”
“The middle course is the best.”
“The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.”