T Quotes
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“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
“The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor. The word ‘honey skinned’ recurs in descriptions of her relatives and would presumably applied to hers as well, despite the inexactitudes surrounding her mother and paternal grandmother. There was certainly Persian blood in the family, but even an Egyptian mistress is a rarity among the Ptolemies. She was not dark skinned.”
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“The pub. It remained the only place in the world that had not evolved into anything more sophisticated. The buildings rose, the towers hit never- ending growth spurts, the concrete sidewalks turned to polycarbonate glass billboards, and the cars drove people. But the pubs—the pubs with their gritty melancholy—endured time. No matter how advanced this species grew to be, the human heart was never short of confusion and in need of the rugged, little lullaby of alcohol and alone time.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“The pub looked very inviting. Warm and characterful. Small tables and timber beams and a wagon wheel attached to a wall. A rich red carpet and a wood-panelled bar full of an impressive array of beer pumps.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The pubertal surge of sex hormones plays a major role in the onset of eating symptoms in females, as shown by the fact that the heritability of Eating Disorders increases sharply at mid-puberty in girls, but not in boys. In particular, binge eating is strongly modulated by the interaction of estrogens and progesterone acrosss the menstrual cycle, consistent with the role played by these hormones in the regulaion of hunger and feeding. Both the frequency of bingeing and its heritability peak after ovulation, in tandem with rising progesterone levels.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“The pubertal surge of sex hormones plays a major role in the onset of eating symptoms in females, as shown by the fact that the heritability of Eating Disorders increases sharply at mid-puberty in girls, but not in boys. In particular, binge eating is strongly modulated by the interaction of estrogens and progesterone acrosss the menstrual cycle, consistent with the role played by these hormones in the regulation of hunger and feeding. Both the frequency of bingeing and its heritability peak after ovulation, in tandem with rising progesterone levels.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“The pubic bones (seen on x ray) are now well defined and represent a remarkable rebuilding of bone and halting of the cancer process. The ischium are also reforming and the illi (hip bones) likewise show diminution of bone lysis. No sane, honest physician could call this a "spontaneous remission."”
“The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.”
Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats
“The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties”
“The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and can with difficulty be learnt in any other place, than in the central councils, to which a knowledge of them will be brought by the representatives of every part of the empire. Yet some knowledge of the affairs, and even of the laws of all the states, ought to be possessed by the members from each of the states.”
Source: Selected Federalist Papers
“The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.”
“The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.”
“The public always loves anything that's different, as long as it's well-made, if it's well-done. You never know what to expect when you go to one of these so-called superhero movies.”
“The public always picks quality.”
“The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.”
Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel
“The public always wants to be told.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
“The public are always right... but I think they've got it wrong tonight”
“The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared.”
“The public are not stupid.”
“The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918”
“The public be damned.”
“The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.”
“The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.”
“The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.”
“The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.”
“The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.”
“The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“The public can tolerate a Nazi America.”
“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.”
“The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.”
Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes
“The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one's fellow citizens should be done publicly.”
“The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.”
Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
“The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments are made to secure the political base and frighten the opposition rather than to illuminate issues. In political discourse, information is to be 'spun' to reinforce pre-existing beliefs, and to discourage opposition.”
“The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.”
“The public does not know what is possible. We do.”
“The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.”
“The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“The public doesn't care about figures.”
“The public doesn't get to see everything. I worked with X a couple times since then. Me and X have a close relationship. We actually did a record they were going to put on the Training Day soundtrack but he ending up buying the record from me and putting it on Great Depression as a bonus track.”
“The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.”
Source: My Story
“The public doesn't really know me. Only people in my inner circle know me well. Others identify me by the beard, always mad, sweaty and that is today's image. People don't understand me, they are scared of me.”
“The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.”
“The public doesnt care about my size. Its just something for the media to talk about.”
“The public doesnt particularly care for advertisements.”
“The public doesn’t have to be hostile to the rich. ‘Robbing the rich to help the poor’ will only drive the rich away to other countries along with their money. As a matter of fact, their wealth should be respected. All wealth in China belongs to the country.”
“The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.”
“The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society to keep that a neutral zone, to keep that an economic zone that can reflect our values, both politically, socially, and economically.”
“The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.”
“The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement...We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America.”