T Quotes
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“The Soviet Union wasn't so closed - it wasn't North Korea. It was a practical system. People were creative and industrious, so if they wanted to see Western TV programs, they would invent a way to do so. It's strange in a way. There was an official truth, and there was daily life.”
“The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing nothing themselves. In this way they would gain nuclear superiority. This is simply not on.”
“The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.”
“The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.”
“The Soviets are not just looking at Moscow, they have a very extensive program of not only research, development, they have built this radar net around the whole country. One of those radars has become infamous because it's a clear violation of the ABM Treaty. They have an infrastructure and they are well prepared to develop a nationwide defensive system.”
“The Soviets had ... built an early warning radar system with computer linkages using a primitive kind of AI code-named Oko. On September 26, 1983, ... the system malfunctioned and reported 5 incoming ICBMs from the United States. Oko alarms sounded and the computer screen flashed "LAUNCH." Under the protocols, the "LAUNCH" display was not a warning but a computer-generated order to retaliate.
Lieutenant Colonel Stanislov Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces saw the computer order and had to choose immediately between treating the order as a computer malfunction or alerting to senior officers, who would likely commence a counterattack. Petrov was Oko's codeveloper and knew the system made mistakes. He also estimated that if the attack were real, the U.S. would use far more than 5 missiles. Petrov was right. The computer had misread the sun's reflection off nearby clouds as incoming missiles.”
Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy
“The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa.”
Source: Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
“The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical power plants, streets, and technical schools. They were communists and had the same vision for Afghanistan that Stalin and Lenin had for the Soviet Union: Progress is communism plus electrification. And today? Today Kabul gets its electrical power from Uzbekistan, Herat from Iran and Jalalabad from Pakistan.”
“The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.”
“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks, forcibly board the peaceful habitat and claim it as captured territory. To the hard-core Soviet mind-set, the American government was an unstable combination of cowboys and gangsters, unpredictable and capable of any insane action. The cosmonauts would have to be armed against outrageous aggression.”
Source: Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder
“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.”
“The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.”
“The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins of the soy itself.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“The space age is thirty thousand years old. Men have moved from star to star in search of wealth and glory; the Gaean Reach encompasses a perceptible fraction of the galaxy. Trade routes thread space like capillaries in living tissue; thousands of worlds have been colonized, each different from every other, each working its specific change upon men who live there. Never has the human race been less homogenous.”
Source: The Gray Prince
“The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.”
“The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe.”
Source: Our Wives Under the Sea
“The space at the bottom of the door was open.”
Source: Borne
“The space between "Girl" and "Friend" is occupied by an infinite universe called #FriendZone.
It's a one way road. :P”
“The space between good and evil grows in distance when splattered against a blank page.”
“The space between meeting a stranger and making a new friend can be a short distance or a gaping chasm. By understanding how to open a conversation well, you will be better able to bridge the gaps and build rapport more successfully.”
“The space between
Petals of love and ache
Mirrors the distance
Between us—
Comforted by faith.”
Source: Where Written Words Remain: Route to My Soul
“The space between the boards is just as important as the boards themselves.”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice
“The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.”
“The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.”
“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where we meet the strong or subtle cultural censors who attempt to define what community, race, class, or gender can or cannot speak, to tell us which stories are told and valued and which are not. In short, it’s where we’re reminded of the power of personal stories and the power of the storyteller.”
Source: Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference
“The space between the promise God gives us and the realization of that promise is where we often get stuck. This is the space where our patience is tested. This is the space where our faith is tested.”
Source: Embracing All of It
“The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’”
“The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.”
“The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?”
Source: The Magic Fish
“THE SPACE BETWEEN US
Mind the space, so long endured,
it’s best for our protection.
I hope it’s true, for if it’s not
a thousand loves have I betrayed.
Look closer, dear,
a voice it sings as if it was a lullaby.
But if I heed it may become
the lure of my demise.
In fear, we come together
seeking a place of refuge.
In fear, we keep the space
lest our refuge become our captor.
The moments of sweetness
so easily discarded
when danger calls from
the abyss between the two.
Do not push away love’s hand
in punishment for what it cannot give.
Together we bypass the gap
which is as deep as it is old.
Forget the chasm
so jaded with angry dreams.
Our fear is empty-handed.
Love’s hand has room for the other.”
Source: Love's Longing
“The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.”
“The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.”
“The space genre is timeless.”
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now. Not for the person we were in the past.”
Source: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
“The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.”
“The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results.”
“The space (nam-mkha') or dimension (dbyings) or expance (klong) of the Dharmakaya provides room for all possible manifestations of phenomena to arise without obstruction. Thus, the literal significance of Dharmakaya (chos-sku) is not "body," such as "Truth Body" or "Law Body," as some would treanslate it, but the dimension (sku, Skt. kāya) of all existence (chos, Skt. dharma). Dharma is what exists, that is, "reality"; and, therefore, it is also the teaching about what really exists. The term kāya (sku) means not only "body" in the ordinary physical sense, but the entire manifest dimension of the individual.”
Source: The Golden Letters: The Tibetan Teachings of Garab Dorje, First Dzogchen Master
“The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.”
“The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.”
“The space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon.”
“The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.”
“The space shuttle Challenger disaster was a classic example of what happens when engineers are overruled by incompetent managers.”
“The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.”
“The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.”
“The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.”
“The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.”
“The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.”
“The space station mission was kind of the culmination of all of my experience of being a NASA Astronaut, so it had brought all of my previous experience into play. I had to learn the Russian language to a fluent level so that I could function as the co-pilot of the Soyuz Spacecraft that we flew up and back from the space station. And then the challenge of being the Commander of the whole expedition, a six and a-half month flight aboard the international space station. I felt the burden of the whole mission on my shoulders, which was fine, and fortunately everything did go well.”
“The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.”
Source: The Master Key to Riches - A Sequel to Think and Grow Rich