T Quotes
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“The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.”
“The vast majority of war crimes are never prosecuted.”
“The vast majority of women musicians function under singular names like 'Cher' 'Madonna'. They have to get married almost immediately to preserve their honour.”
“The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.”
“The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic.”
“The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.”
Source: Technics and Civilization
“The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.”
Source: Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory
“The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.”
Source: Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress
“The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.”
“The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.”
“The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.”
Source: Mountain Dialogues
“The vast silence of Buddha overtakes
and overrules the oncoming roar
of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues;
it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.”
Source: Making Peace
“The vast sky is not hindered by the floating clouds.”
“The vast unfathomable sea
Is but a Notion-unto me.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
“The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.”
“The vast walls of books in our cluttered little house became Borges's magical aleph and I found that if I looked the right way I could see the whole world.”
Source: Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture
“The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.”
“The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.”
“The vastest things are those we may not learn.
We are not taught to die, nor to be born,
Nor how to burn
With love.
How pitiful is our enforced return
To those small things we are the masters of.”
Source: Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings
“The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells us who is viewed as disposable - someone to be purged from the body politic - and who is not. Drunk drivers are predominately white and male.”
“The vastness of businesses administration entails that it is a rich platform from which a Muslim can conduct righteous deeds. Mohammad Rahman”
“The vastness of her home waters hid whales, mountains, possibly gods.”
Source: Stjerne: Mermaid Tails
“The vastness of the magnificent sky is a clear indication to dream big.”
“The vastness of the magnificent sky is a reason enough to dream insanely big.”
“The vastness of the world held concealed surprises waiting to be unraveled through experiences.”
Source: TASTE OF FATE: Two Souls. One Serendipitous Connection.
“The vatican, british empire, and uncle sam, these three are the apex predator of planet earth.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind of behind-the-scene role in many world issues.”
“The Vatican has been sending out missionaries across the world not to help the poor, but to convert the poor, in exchange for charity. In this respect, empirically speaking, the only religion that has been practicing the tradition of actual selfless service religiously, is Sikhism. Till this day Sikh langars or soup-kitchens across the world feed millions of people regularly, no matter their status, faith or ethnicity, without asking for anything in return. Religious charity in exchange for religious conversion is the most sacrilegious act of all. In the end, it has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with service. Either serve or don't, there is no spreading the word. Spread good acts, not good news.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.”
“The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.”
“The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.”
“The Vatican is less of a religious institution and more of a headquarter of inhumanity.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“The Vatican takes your breath away.”
“The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy.”
“The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.”
“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”
“The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.”
“The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will ever know to eternity and god: the zero phase of conceptual integrity inherent in the positive and negative asymmetries that propagate the differentials of consciousness.”
“The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
theater and empty circus and empty universe
ready to accommodate any act and any audience.”
“The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.”
Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited
“The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.”
Source: Vedanta: Voice of Freedom
“The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.”
Source: Vedanta: Voice of Freedom
“The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.”
Source: All Religions are True
“The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.”
“The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects were separated from religion - when astronomy and astrology were taken out of religion - these subjects, being connected with the Vedas and being ancient, were considered very holy.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The Vedas inform us that because God is absolute, there is no difference between God the person and His holy name; the name is God.”
“The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.”
Source: Chicago Addresses
“The Vedas were first composed in Sanskrit approximately 3800 BC. Previous to even this time, this literature is known to have been preserved orally, and passed down from generation to generation of priests, seers and sages before finally being committed to writing. Thus, no one can accurately date the antiquity of the Vedas and consequently of Dharma. Dharma is one of the most ancient concepts known to humanity. The word “Dharma” is found repeatedly throughout the entire corpus of the Vedic scriptures, from the earliest Rig Veda to the Bhagavad Gita. There is almost no scripture in the entirety of the Vedic literature where one will not come across the word “Dharma” as the preeminent name of the religio-philosophical world-view taught in these ancient, sacred texts. Sometimes the word “Dharma” is used by itself; at other times it is used in conjunction with other qualifying words, such as “Vaidika Dharma” (Vedic Dharma), “Vishva Dharma” (Global Dharma), “Yoga Dharma” (the Dharma of Union), or more frequently as "Sanatana Dharma" (the Eternal Natural Way). The diversity of adjectival emphases will vary in accordance with the precise context in which the word is used. Of these terms, the name “Sanatana Dharma” has been the most widely used name of the path of Truth, and is used as far back as the Rig Veda (3800 BC), the very earliest scripture of the Indo-European peoples, and the earliest written text known to humanity. It is also the most philosophically profound and conceptually beautiful name for the path of Truth. (p. 42)”
Source: Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way
“The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.”
Source: India: What Can it Teach Us?