T Quotes
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“The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming Force or Weakness of the Evidence.”
“The use of the Will as the projector of Mentative Currents is the real base of all Mental Magic.”
Source: THE POWER OF MIND - 17 Books Collection: The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, The Power of Concentration, The Inner Consciousness…: Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion + Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It, Practical Mental Influence + The Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind + Self-Healing by Thought Force…
“The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.”
“The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.”
“The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.”
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.”
Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes
“The use of vaccine in the control of yellow fever should occupy more or less the same place that typhoid fever vaccine has in the control of typhoid fever. No sanitary authority would desire to substitute typhoid vaccine for the supply of pure water and food, so we must not accept the yellow fever vaccine as a substitute for the elimination of Aedes aegypti. The vaccine provides individual protection for the person who cannot be protected by more general measures.”
“The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.”
Source: POINTS OF REBELLION
“The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.”
“The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.”
Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.”
Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies
“The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.”
“The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is.”
Source: Can Man Live Without God
“The use or application of time determines its perception.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.”
“The used key is always bright.”
Source: Maxims and Morals from Dr. Franklin: Being Incitements to Industry, Frugality, and Prudence
“The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.”
“The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.”
“The usefulest truths are the plainest.”
“The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.”
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life
“The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.”
“The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.”
“The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.”
“The usefulness of a thing is dependent not on what it is, or how it can be used, but on the needs or wants of the user.”
“The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.”
“The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.”
“The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature and purpose as a deliberate human activity. Doubtless this is due to the inevitable drawback that mathematical study is saturated with technicalities from beginning to end.”
“The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.”
“The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results.”
Source: Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation
“The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.”
“The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.”
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“The useless is beautiful because it is less real than the useful, which enjoys a continuing and lasting existence; while the marvellously useless, the gloriously infinitesimal, remains where it is, never goes beyond being what it is, and lives free and independent. The useless and the futile create intervals of humble aesthetic in our real lives. The mere insignificant existence of a pin stuck in a piece of ribbon provokes in my soul all manner of dreams and wondrous delights! I pity those who do not recognize the importance of such things!”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“The useless men are those who never change with the years.”
“The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.”
Source: Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon
“The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.”
“The user experience design of a product essentially lies between the intentions of the product and the characteristics of your user.”
Source: Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
“The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.”
“The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using.”
“The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.”
“The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.”
“The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.”
“The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.”
Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader
“The Uses Of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
Source: Thirst
“The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.”
Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“The USGA doesn't want to recognize the fact that today's players are better than ever. They seem willing to do anything to prevent us from shooting scores that would make us appear better than the great names of the past.”
“The USHA manual warned that it was undesirable to have projects for white families “in areas now occupied for Negroes” and added: “The aim of the [local housing] authority should be the preservation rather than the disruption of community social structures which best fit the desires of the groups concerned.”
Source: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
“The Uskoks – like reformed alcoholics brought face to face with row upon row of brightly coloured liqueur miniatures – were simply unable to avoid helping themselves to passing Venetian Christian ships.”
Source: Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe