T Quotes
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“The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it, it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves.”
“The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now.”
“The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.”
“The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.”
“The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.”
“The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.”
“The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“The real service to God is when it involves people in need”
“The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together”
“The real sign of His blessings is if you can have more and more happiness inside. Learn always to be happy; to be happy with the happiness of God. Even- minded and cheerful. This is the fastest route to divine bliss.”
“The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.”
Source: Lord Jim
“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.”
“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.”
“The real sin is averting your eyes and failing to believe in anyone.”
“The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.”
Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
“The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.”
“The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.”
Source: Evening Thoughts
“The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.”
“The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.”
Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .
“The real smile is the one that comes from the heart, no matter what life brings.”
“The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.”
“The real source of knowledge is action.”
“The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the3 emerging middle-income consumers. It is the billions of aspiring poor who are joining the market economy for the first time.”
“The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.”
“The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.”
“The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.”
“The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.”
“the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.”
Source: By Myself and Then Some
“The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices.”
“The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.”
“The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.”
“The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.”
“The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.”
“The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important." "It was probably important to her.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.”
“The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest”
“The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.”
“The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.”
“The real strength of refugee families seems to have emerged from the women who, in some cases, experienced an odd sense of liberation. Women who had never before cooked took it up with enthusiasm, consulting books they had used previously only to instruct servants.... They went out of the house to find jobs. Men, usually untrained for any career other than the military, emasculated by the loss of power as well as the loss of wealth, were more reluctant to accept the fact that the golden years they had known were gone forever. The Romanovs themselves reflected this widespread pattern among emigrés: strong women taking charge in an often desperate situation.”
Source: The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga
“The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.”
“The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded the sovereignty of the people when it came to politics, and the sovereignty of the consumer when it came to economics.”
“The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.”
“The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.”
“The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.”
“The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.”
“The real struggle isn't the trauma itself, but the daily battle to reclaim the joy we've lost because of it".”
Source: Echoes of a Silent Heart: A Poetry Collection
“The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.”
Source: Think on these things
“The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings