T Quotes
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“The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.”
“The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences
“The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off.”
“The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane of the bourgeoisie. That kind of education does not develop the aristocratic virtues. It neither encourages reflection nor inspires reverence for the good.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences
“The prevailing discriminatory practices during the sixties, whose targets were working people, women, and people of color, were atrocious. Thus, an enforceable race-based -- and later gender based -- affirmative action policy was the best possible compromise and concession. Progressives should view affirmative action as neither a major solution to poverty nor a sufficient means to equality. We should see it as primarily playing a negative role -- namely, to ensure that discriminatory practices against women and people of color are abated. Given the history of this country, it is a virtual certainty that without affirmative action, racial and sexual discrimination would return with a vengeance. Even if affirmative action fails significantly to reduce black poverty or contributes to the persistence of racist perceptions in the workplace, without affirmative action, black access to America's prosperity would be even more difficult to obtain and racism in the workplace would persist anyway.”
Source: Race Matters
“The prevailing emphasis of the [Biblical] narratives, in any case, does move away from mythology. What is crucial for the literary understanding of the Bible is that this impulse to shape a different kind of narrative in prose had powerfully constructive consequences in the new medium that the ancient Hebrew writers fashioned for their monotheistic purposes. Prose narration, affording writers a remarkable range and flexibility in the means of presentation, could be utilized to liberate fictional personages from the fixed choreography of timeless events and thus could transform storytelling from ritual rehearsal to the delineation of the wayward paths of human freedom, the quirks and contradictions of men and women seen as moral agents and complex centers of motive and feeling….Because it is a literature that breaks away from the old cosmic hierarchies, the Bible switches from a reliance on metaphor … toward the indeterminacy, the shifting causal concatenations, the ambiguities of fiction made to resemble the uncertainties of life in history. And for that movement, I would add, the suppleness of prose as a narrative medium was indispensable.”
Source: The Art of Biblical Narrative
“The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.”
Source: The Sovereignty of God
“The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.”
“The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism.”
“The prevailing number of students performing below proficient levels signals a pressing need for addressing underachievement to ensure a brighter, more equitable future.”
“The prevailing opinion among historians, ancient and modern alike, is that the senatorial assassins were intent upon restoring republican liberties by doing away with a despotic usurper. This is the justification offered by the assassins themselves. I present an alternative explanation: The Senate aristocrats killed Caesar because they perceived him to be a popular leader who threatened their privileged interests.”
Source: The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome
“The prevailing opinion at court was that the founding of a colony was beyond the strength of the Sovereign of a small state and that he would swallow up his private fortune, unable to create anything lasting. The King sought for the execution of his designs collaborators possessed of the faith which he himself had and which lifts mountains.”
“The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.”
“The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.”
Source: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
“The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.”
Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
“The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.”
“The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.”
Source: The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens
“The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.”
“The prevailing vision of history, as an egalitarian pageant of equally valid, self-authenticating "perspectives" on the past representing the "voices" of particular groups, is dangerous to society at large. It reserves a special place for everyone, which is exciting news for political extremists, con-artists, and megalomaniacs eager to register their self-interested propaganda as legitimate contributions to a "broader perspective" of history.”
Source: Stones of Contention
“The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.”
Source: Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
“The prevalence of hybrid work is good for the advancement of a permaculture economy.”
Source: Business Essentials
“The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.”
“The prevalence of the application as the Self in the applied awareness as the Self is absolute Knowledge.”
Source: Spirituality in Speech
“The prevalence of underachievement is a societal challenge that demands strategic interventions to create a level playing field for all individuals, regardless of their circumstances.”
“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.”
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“The prevent defense prevents victory.”
“The prevention of competition is essential to exploitation.”
Source: Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
“The previous Friday, Andy had come over, and they'd told him, and Andy had stood and hugged them both very solemnly, as if he was Jude's father and they had told him that they had just gotten engaged.”
Source: A Little Life
“The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.”
“The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.”
“The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.”
“The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.”
Source: The Good Husband Of Zebra Drive
“The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul."”
Source: Complete Poems
“The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.”
“The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.”
“The price, after all, for not having died already
goes up not in leaps but step by step, and he would
pay that price, too.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“The price be one copper. Tis a wee price for salvation, Noble One.”
Source: Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption - that is, between what people are paid when they go to work, and the things that they buy.”
“The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.”
“The price for being the best is always…having to be the best. And you pays it, same as me.”
Source: Lords and Ladies
“The price for Greatness comes with Great loss.”
“The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.”
“The price for Jarrod's freedom is to be my imprisonment.”
Source: Old Magic
“The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.”
“The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich”
“The price for standing up for Truth, no matter how severe, will always be less than the price our souls will be penalized for not speaking up for our conscience. There is no greater crime in the universe than silencing your conscience.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users.”
Source: Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”