T Quotes
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“The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.”
“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again.”
“The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.”
Source: A Saucer of Loneliness
“The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.”
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”
Source: The Portable Bernard Shaw
“The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.”
“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears. In Virginia the late autumn was a lover, still, but a dangerous one.”
Source: The Eighth Square
“The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste”
“The novice spends too much time worrying about what you get.It is all about hoarding.Things.Thoughts.Worries.Appraisals.Love.You name it .”
“The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market.”
“The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human.”
“The Novoloume gazed in interest around the cabin. “So the whispers are true—Kats, SAIs and Humans have come to join with the anarchs in a quest to save us all.”
Felzeor returned to Caleb’s outstretched arm and leaned in to nuzzle his nose. “What a grand quest it’s sure to be!”
Source: Rubicon
“The now familiar question raised itself: how could she just join in to a life that she was years late for? Nora closed her eyes. The other lives in which she'd had children had only lasted a couple of minutes or so. This one was already leading into unknown territory.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or events. Underneath the surface appearance, all things are interconnected, are part of the totality of the cosmos that has brought about the form that this moment takes.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“The now" is the biggest lie we live. It barely exists. The present is merely a fleeting point of intersection between "the past" and "the future." If you think about anything or act on something, you'll discover that it existed for just a split second before becoming part of the past. Focus on what is coming, or you'll always be ejected back into the past and miss the train.”
“The now reality is our only home, where everything already is. There is no other home we came from, and we might think we shall return to.”
“The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.”
Source: Meister Eckhart
“The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.”
Source: The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law
“The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.”
“The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity; the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.”
“The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.”
“The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.”
“The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago. And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution says 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“The NRA brainwashes you into believing that you need to buy a bunch of guns, to protect yourself from all the people with guns.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.”
“The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.”
“The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.”
“The NRA is weakening but the opposing forces are stronger. A member of Congress has and still does pay a price for voting against the NRA. But now a member pays a price for voting with the NRA, too. In many districts, the price is higher when a member votes with the NRA than against the NRA. The public is outraged.”
“The NRA kills more Americans than Muslim terrorists do.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“The NRA made an ad saying that Obama is elitist because his kids have armed guards. Yeah, that crazy Obama thinking his kids need special protection. I love the NRA accusing anyone of being paranoid. It's like a septic tank saying, 'You need a mint.'”
“The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.”
“The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.”
“The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.”
“The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.”
“The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.”
“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.”
“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.”
“The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet.[Barack] Obama has done nothing about that.”
“The NSA is correct, 1984 is now.”
Source: The Edward Snowden Affair: Exposing the Politics and Media Behind the NSA Scandal
“The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.”
“The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.”
“The NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know...”
Source: Nothing is here...
“The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.”
“The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us.”
“The NSA?"
"Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery."
Venkat shrugged. "It's amazing how much red tape gets cut when everyone's rooting for one man to survive.”
Source: The Martian
“The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.”
“The NSA's vision statement is: keep the problem going so the money keeps flowing.”
“The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field.”
“The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.”