T Quotes
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“The stand-up really helped because you know the feeling when something feels true, and you know the feeling when it feels false. You don't ever want to give an actor the feeling of it being false, because you know how unfair that is.”
“The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of sets but functions between sets. This can be done by using the language of categories and universal constructions.”
Source: Mathematics, form and function
“The Standard ... is the standard.”
“The standard and completely moronic response of the Soviet-and subsequently of the Russian-authorities to any crisis is to decide that it is in the interests of the population that they should be lied to endlessly. Otherwise, the reasoning goes, people are sure to run out of their homes, rush around in a state of anarchy, set buildings on fire, and kill each other!
The truth of the matter is that nothing of that sort has ever happened. In most crises the population is prepared to behave in a rational and disciplined manner, especially if the situation were to be explained to them and they were told what needed to be done. Instead, as I have since seen on a less dramatic scale many times, the first official reaction is invariably to lie. There is no practical benefit to the officials doing so; it is simply a rule: In an awkward situation, lie. Play down the damage, deny everything, bluff. It can all be sorted out later, but right now, at the moment of crisis, officials have no option but to lie, because the imagined idiot population is not yet ready for the truth.
In the Chernobyl affair, it is pointless to look for even a scintilla of rationality. God forbid the people should have been told to stay indoors for a week and not go outside unless absolutely necessary. In Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine with a population in the millions, a May Day parade was held just five days after the explosion, for the same propaganda purposes-to pretend that all was well. We know now how these decisions were made. The leaders of the Communist Party, sitting in their offices, wanted foremost to ensure that neither the Soviet people nor-horror of horrors-foreigners should know anything about the atomic disaster. The health of tens of thousands of people was sacrificed in the cause of a grand cover-up that was ridiculous, because the radioactive fallout was so extensive it was registered by laboratories all over the globe.”
Source: Patriot: A Memoir
“The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.”
Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating
“The standard-brand religions [...] are — as now practiced — like exhausted mines: very hard to dig. With some exceptions not too easily found, their ideas about man and the world, their imagery, their rites, and their notions of the good life don't seem to fit in with the universe as we now know it, or with a human world that is changing so rapidly that much of what one learns in school is already obsolete on graduation day.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability.”
“The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.”
“The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.”
Source: Standard Dreaming: A Novella
“The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.”
“The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.”
“The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.”
“The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.”
“The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.”
“The standard is clear. If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing... Because we estrange the Spirit of the Lord when we engage in activities we know we should shun, then such things definitely are not for us.”
“The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement.”
“The standard is the same. Don't get me wrong, the main difference is the number of sparring partners. Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are the best coaches in the world in my opinion and in many other people's opinion but it really it comes down to the number of sparring partners. I go to my gym and I have 10 fighters fighting on the local level but when you go over there it's like 30 fighters all fighting in the UFC or other bigger shows. That's really the main thing; the numbers.”
“The standard is the standard and whomever walks in the door at the time I need a person in that position who can do that job with excellence and who understands my vision, if they can fulfill it, they got the job whether they're young, old, black, white, male or female.”
“The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.”
“The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.”
“The standard model of schooling in which 20 or more young people of the same age are taught in classrooms for about 5 hours a day on most days of the year for 10 years certainly runs counter some of our evolved behavioral strategies.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“The standard modern measurement for inebriation is the Ose system. This has been considerably developed over the years, but the common medical consensus currently has jocose, verbose, morose, bellicose, lachrymose, comatose, adios.
This is a workable but incomplete system, as it fails to take in otiose (meaning impractical) which comes just after jocose. Nor does it have grandiose preceding bellicose. And how they managed to miss out globose (amorphous or formless) before comatose is beyond me.”
Source: The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
“The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it.”
“The standard of being good and bad?
In our country, this has become a wrong belief, like in the ignorant societies, that whoever Allah gives to, He gives because He is pleased with them. Big bribe takers and criminals get ‘Haza min fadli Rabbi’ engraved on their palaces with the idea that all this is the grace of my Lord upon me. This is completely wrong.”
“The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788
“The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.”
“The standard of living of the average American has to decline.”
“The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.”
Source: Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses
“The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.”
“The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.”
“The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.”
“The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory one to the other.”
Source: Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Volume 1-4
“The standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”
“The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.”
“The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.”
“The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.”
“The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.”
“The standard set up by statute is not a rule of law, it is rather a way of life.”
Source: Expert Witnessing in Forensic Account (02) by Telpner, Zeph - Mostek, Michael [Hardcover (2002)]
“The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.”
“The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than anybody could produce them in Detroit, we no longer were the world capital of industrialization.”
“The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.”
Source: Valences of the Dialectic
“The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.”
Source: The Uses of Philosophy: An Irwin Edman Reader
“The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.”
“The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows.”
“The standards of beauty in America's über-culture are purposefully set too high so that we will buy anything in our frantic scramble to become attractive. We are meant to feel crushed, inadequate, and less-than so that we'll buy more and more things in the vain hope of "fixing" ourselves.”
Source: Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws
“The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.”
“The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.”
“The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.”