T Quotes
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“The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics
“The use of guns and militarized equipment undermines the basic ethos of school as a learning environment and replaces it with fear and control.”
“The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.”
“The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“The use of incense and processional lights has been of late discussed in the Anglican Church with considerably more fervour than knowledge, and it has assumed an importance in controversy all out of proportion to its merits.”
Source: A History of the Use of Incense in Divine Worship
“The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.”
“The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers
“The use of KPIs is meant to improve and transform the organizational performance.”
Source: Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
“The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it's increasingly difficult in our society to find the word "drug" not connected to the word "abuse." The notion of a responsible use of drugs is written out in the language of our culture.”
“The use of language begins with imitation. The infant imitates the sounds made by its
parents; the child imitates first the spoken language, then the stuff of books. The imitative life continues long after the writer is secure in the language, for it is almost impossible to avoid imitating what one admires. Never imitate consciously, but do not worry about being an imitator; take pains instead to admire what is good. Then when you write in a way that comes naturally, you will echo the halloos that bear repeating.”
“The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.”
“The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.”
Source: Assessment and Control of Software Risks
“The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the Self, love creates health.”
“The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.”
Source: Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society
“The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.”
“The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.”
Source: Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.”
“The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.”
“The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.”
Source: The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces
“The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.”
Source: The Time of Our Singing: A Novel
“The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind. How rich are the contents of visual perception? Does vision only tell us about shapes and colours, or does it also represent higher categories like lemon or umbrella?”
“the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right.”
“The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.”
“The use of our military in combat should first require declaration of war. I have long called for reinstating the military draft, simply because I believe strongly that a national decision to go to war must also include a broad commitment to share its burdens. Whenever Congress decides to fund a war or other U.S. combat activities, it must provide a means to pay for it-then and there-not later. If we don't have the will to fully share the burdens of war, then we have no right to send our sons and daughters into harm's way.”
“The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.”
“The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.”
“The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.”
“The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.”
Source: Castilian Days
“The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.”
“The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.”
“The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END!”
“The use of reason and that of an erect penis are mutually exclusive.”
“The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.”
“The use of religion to transform local power struggles into cosmic conflicts benefits terrorist groups who may otherwise be viewed as economically and politically self-serving.”
Source: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Violence
“The use of riches is better than their possession.”
“The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player who doesn't have much to say, for example, can make me wish to leave the church immediately, whereas one great jazz or classical guitarist can confirm that I will have a spiritual experience in the church.”
“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”
“The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right”
Source: Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage
“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”
“The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.”
Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.”
“The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”
“The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the 'conventional' bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic bomb.”
Source: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
“The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.”
“The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.”
“The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.”
“The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.”
“The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.”
“The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.”