T Quotes
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“The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.”
Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian
“The role of dominance and submission in human sexuality cannot be overstated. Our survey suggests that the majority (over 50%) of humans are very aroused by either acting out or witnessing dominance or submission. But it gets crazier than that: While 45% of women taking our survey said they found the naked male form to be very arousing and 48% said they found the sight of a penis to very arousing, a heftier 53% said they found their partner acting dominant in a sexual context to be very arousing. Dominance is literally more likely to be very arousing to the average female than naked men or penises. To say: “Dominance and submission are tied to human arousal patterns” is more of an understatement than saying: “Penises are tied to human arousal patterns.”
We have a delectable theory about what is going on here: If you look at all the emotional states that frequently get tied to arousal pathways, the vast majority of them seem to be proxies for behaviors that would have been associated with our pre-human ancestors’ and early humans’ dominance and submission displays. For example, things like humiliation, being taken advantage of, chains, being used, being useful, being constrained, a lack of freedom, being prey, and a lack of free will may all have been concepts and emotions important in early human submission displays.
We posit that most of the time when a human is turned on by a strange emotional concept—being bound for instance—their brain is just using that concept as a proxy for a pre-human submission display and lighting up the neural pathways associated with it, creating a situation in which it looks like a large number of random emotional states are turning humans on, when in reality they all boil down to just a fuzzy outline of dominance and submission. Heck, speaking of binding as a submission display, there were similar ritualized submission displays in the early middle ages, in which a vassal would present their hands clasped in front of their lord and allow the lord to hold their clasped hands in a way that rendered them unable to unclasp them (this submission display to one’s lord is where the symbolism of the Christian kneeling and hands together during prayer ritual comes from). We suspect the concept of binding and defenselessness have played important roles in human submission displays well into pre-history. Should all this be the case, why on earth have our brains been hardwired to bind (hehe) our recognition of dominance and submission displays to our sexual arousal systems?!?”
Source: The Pragmatist's Guide to Sexuality
“The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential”
“The role of educational institutions in promoting accessibility extends beyond education of students with disabilities; it creates a ripple effect of awareness and understanding of accessibility among the general public.”
“The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of our folk concepts, but that it gives us a better view of knowledge, and the mind, and so on.”
“The role of enlightened parents is too strengthen the weak.”
Source: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
“The role of fear is especially relevant in neuroplastic healing. If the brain comes to believe that something harmless is dangerous, that belief causes fear that can create or contribute to pain and illness. The healing insight of neuroplasticity is that this association can be reversed: the false sense of danger that causes the fear— and the baseless fear that causes the pain— can be unlearned, and the pain can ease and the body can heal.”
Source: Chasing Peace: A Story of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and the Spiritual Power of Neuroscience
“The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth.”
“The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.”
“The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.”
Source: Killosophy
“The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it should be zero. There is no role for geo-engeneering. Because what is geoengineering but extending the engineering paradigm?”
“The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.”
“The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.”
Source: A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children
“The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers to opportunity and laid the foundation for a better future. Our people -- with all their drive and ingenuity -- always end up building the rest. And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.”
“The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.”
“The role of HR professionals is often undervalued despite its paramount significance within an organization.”
“The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.”
“The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.”
“The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.”
“The role of Iran has been very destructive. As an Iranian, I apologize to the civilian people of Syria who have been killed as a result of the useless intervention of Iran in Syria.”
“The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.”
Source: Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch
“The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.”
“The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.”
Source: True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”
“The role of mentorship is motivation”
“The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.”
“The role of mindfulness is to help us be aware of what gives us meaning.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.”
“The role of money in the Soviet economy was limited by the fact that many consumer goods (housing, public transport, education, medical care) were basically allocated (or heavily subsidised) rather than sold at market prices. (Rents, fares and charges for medicines did exist, but they were relatively insignificant.) Because of this, and because of the fact that producer goods were rationed, money in the traditional model was not a universal medium of exchange. There were many things it could not buy.”
Source: Socialist Planning
“The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.”
“The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.”
“The role of religion is to give a good role model for virtue; the objective of spiritual practice is to embody it.”
“The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.”
Source: Christopher Columbus & the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery & the Rise of European Capitalism
“The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.”
“The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to undermine America when it mattered, had been sanitized; and the role of Mr. Gorbachev, who had failed spectacularly in his declared objective of saving communism and the Soviet Union, had been absurdly misunderstood.”
“The role of school administrators encompasses strategic planning, curriculum collaboration, and student support to ensure the school's success.”
“The role of school administrators extends beyond managing operations; they are advocates for student success and champions of educational excellence.”
“The role of science is not to serve the demands of the moment and provide easy answers when society demands them. Its purpose remains today, as it was a century ago, to challenge clear-cut solutions and to ask troubling questions.”
Source: Mariánský sloup na Staroměstském náměstí v Praze
“The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system.”
Source: Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science
“The role of science should be to investigate the unexplained, not explain the uninvestigated.”
“The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.”
“The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.”
“The role of soil in natural ecosystems shares striking similarities with the role of capital in economies. Just as soil serves as the vital resource underpinning natural ecosystems, capital is the foundational resource driving economic systems.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“The role of soil in natural ecosystems shares striking similarities with the role of capital in economies. Just as soil serves as the vital resource underpinning natural ecosystems, capital is the foundational resource driving economic systems. In both contexts, the effective allocation of resources, whether capital or nutrients, determines productivity, competitiveness, and overall stability.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.”
“The role of the academy as a colonial and imperial space par excellence, which in the age globalization and corporatization of practically everything, has become the biggest enemy of knowledge and the decolonial option. In fact, the academy has become a space that instead of creating options, is doing everything in its power to deny most people options and keep itself as the only game in town.”
“The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path of our energy.”
“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
“The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.”
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”