T Quotes
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“The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.”
Source: People and Performance
“The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?”
Source: Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov
“The Pertussis vaccine itself was awarded a big part in this ongoing drama when, in 1959, it was found to have a particularly powerful allergenic effect on all sorts of laboratory animals. Experiments to produce anaphylactic shock are facilitated by addition of pertussis vaccine to the solution: the mice (or rabbits, or hamsters, or whatever) die more rapidly, and in larger numbers. By the same token, addition of the vaccine to the sterile brain and spinal cord solution greatly enhances it's ability to generate an allergic encephalitis. For these reasons pertussis vaccine is the preferred "adjuvant" in experiments to produce allergic encephalomyelitis.”
Source: Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain
“The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.”
Source: Small Craft Warnings: Stories
“The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.”
“The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.”
“The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.”
Source: It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
“The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of the “old experience” and the “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.”
Source: CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
“The pervasive doctrine of white supremacy supposedly inoculated whites against the will to interracial mixing, but that doctrine proved to be unreliable when matched against the force of human sexuality. People are prone to having sex, especially when they are in daily contact with potential objects of sexual attraction. That inclination has permeated every slave society, every frontier society, and every colonial society that has ever existed.”
Source: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
“The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there are lots of men who aren't. But people make certain assumptions.”
“The perverse belief that God causes or allows all the suffering in the world has made hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of atheists and agnostics worldwide and throughout history.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.”
“The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.”
Source: A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish
“The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.”
Source: Politics
“The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.”
“The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics.”
Source: Magic Strikes
“The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.”
“The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.”
“The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“The pessimist and optimist are but two faces of the same psyche, their contrasting outlooks a reflection of the delicate dance of neurotransmitters within the intricate landscape of brain chemistry.”
“The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.”
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
“The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.”
Source: Books and Men
“The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'”
“The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?”
“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.”
“The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him?
No, thank you,' he will think. 'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“The pessimist says, “Things are so bad they can’t possibly get worse.” The optimist responds: “Yes they can!”
Source: The Case for Liberalism in an Age of Extremism: or, Why I Left the Left But Can't Join the Right
“The pessimist sees fire. The optimist sees light. The wise sees life.”
“The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.”
Source: Pieces of Eight
“The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.”
“The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.”
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
“The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area.”
“The Petal table is a flower that is always in bloom.”
“The petals are the texture of his lips.
The color is mine.”
Source: Rosa Scriptum
“The petals of their lips don't have the thorn of bodies. (Les pétales de leur lèvres N'ont pas l'épine des corps)”
“The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.”
Source: Barthes: Selected Writings
“The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.”
Source: Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play
“The petition argued that the Court's decision was a dire mistake; if the decision were allowed to stand and prosecutors were compelled to explain gross racial disparities such as the ones at issue, it would...'paralyze the criminal justice system'—apparently because severe and inexplicable racial disparities pervaded the system as a whole.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.”
“The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.”
“The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.”
Source: Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon
“The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S.”
“The Petriana’s tribune dismounted a dozen paces short of the gate and stalked up to the palisade wall with a grim smile, squinting up at Scaurus and his officers and then glancing back at the men building the pyre on the plain below the fortress. He called up to them, shielding his eyes with a raised hand.
‘Well now, colleague, I see you’ve accomplished your orders with the usual efficiency. Perhaps you ought to come down here and join me, though. I’ve something to tell you that will give you some pause for thought.’
Scaurus climbed down from the wall after instructing Julius to keep the men inside the Dinpaladyr at their tasks.
‘You’d better come with me, Centurion Corvus, I suspect I’m going to need someone to take notes of whatever it is my brother tribune has to tell me. I may well be too busy banging my head on the palisade in frustration.”
Source: Fortress of Spears