T Quotes
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“The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least for a while, to see what the world looks like from outside it.”
“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
“The Academy is paranoid about its image.”
“The accelerating pace of change is now the norm.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The acceleration and saturation leads to things becoming outmoded, or out of fashion before they've even happened. That's a pretty complicated situation. Hype becomes autonomous from its object and runs away with itself.”
“The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.”
“The accelerator is stuck and humanity is driving at full speed into the brick wall of extinction.”
“The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.”
“The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team
function, with the emphasis being on the defender's own half of the field
and letting the opponents keep the initiative of the game. This is to take
advantage of the space behind their defense for the buildup and the attack.”
“The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.”
“The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.”
“The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.”
“The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.”
“The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.”
“The accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no”
Source: Guards! Guards!
“The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the birth control movement began, such a separation was widely considered immoral. The eventual widespread public acceptance of birth control required a major reorientation of sexual values.”
Source: The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America
“The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.”
“The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.”
Source: Clearing the ground
“The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.”
“The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.”
Source: The Unconscious Civilization
“The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.”
“The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.”
“The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.”
Source: Misadventurous
“The acceptance of my own death, this understanding of my own fragility, has made everything easier - untangling my addictions, identifying and confronting my own entitlement, accepting responsibility for my own problems - suffering through my fears and uncertainties, accepting my failures and embracing rejections - it has all been made lighter by the thought of my own death. The more I peek into the darkness, the brighter life gets, the quieter the world becomes and the less unconscious resistance I feel to, well, anything.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself -- that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness -- that I myself am the enemy who must be loved -- what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.”
“The acceptance of suffering as a proof of courage was
the theme of primitive initiation rites in the distant past, and all such rites were at the same time ceremonies of death and resurrection. Men have by now forgotten the profound hidden struggle between consciousness and the body that exists in courage, and physical courage in particular. Consciousness is generally considered to be passive, and the active body to constitute the essence of all that is bole and daring; yet in the drama of physical courage the roles are, in fact, reversed. The flesh beats a steady retreat into its function of self-defense, while it is clearly consciousness that controls the decision that sends the body soaring into self-abandonment. It is the ultimate in clarity of consciousness that constitutes one of the strongest contributing factors in self-abandonment.”
Source: Sun & Steel
“The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.”
“The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.”
“The acceptance of the truth now appears to be increasingly based on the acceptability of the appearance and Mandarin reputation of the person proclaiming it. We’re increasingly in the grip of the logical fallacy of the appeal to authority. When people appeal to authority, they are claiming that something must be true because it is said or believed by someone who is said to be an “authority” on the subject. Anyone with an “out there” image is deemed automatically not to be an authority because the Mandarins have brainwashed everyone to believe that authorities must look as bland as possible, just like them.”
Source: The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning
“The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.”
“The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.”
Source: Is nothing sacred?
“The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.”
“The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.”
“The accessibility and effective immortality of actual information is a magnificent phenomenon, a beautiful extension of human consciousness. It is too bad people find so many ways to abuse the internet, but that's just how things are.”
“The accessible physical space of the library is not the only factor that makes it work well as social infrastructure. The institution's extensive programming, organized by a professional staff that upholds a principled commitment to openness and inclusivity, fosters social cohesion among clients who might otherwise keep to themselves.”
Source: Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
“The accession of not one but three illegal drug users in a row to the US presidency constitutes an existential challenge to the prohibitionist regime. The fact that some of the most successful people of our time, be it in business, finances, politics, entertainment or the arts, are current or former substance users is a fundamental refutation of its premises and a stinging rebuttal of its rationale. A criminal law that is broken at least once by 50% of the adult population and that is broken on a regular basis by 20% of the same adult population is a broken law, a fatally flawed law. How can a democratic government justify a law that is consistently broken by a substantial minority of the population? What we are witnessing here is a massive case of civil disobedience not seen since alcohol prohibition in the 1930 in the US. On what basis can a democratic system justify the stigmatization and discrimination of a strong minority of as much as 20% of its population?”
Source: World War D. The Case against prohibitionism, roadmap to controlled re-legalization
“The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station was graphic evidence, not only of how obsolete our technology was, but also of the failure of the old system. At the same time, and such is the irony of history, it severely affected our reforms by literally knocking the country off its tracks.”
Source: Memoirs
“The accident has occurred,
the ship has broken, the motor
of the car has failed, we have been
separated from the others,
we are alone in the sand, the ocean,
the frozen snow
I remember what I have to do
in order to stay alive,
I take stock of our belongings
most of them useless
I know I should be digging shelters,
killing seabirds and making
clothes from their feathers
cutting the rinds from cacti, chewing
roots for water, scraping through
the ice for treebark, for moss
but I rest here without power
to save myself, tasting
salt in my mouth, the fact that
you won't save me
watching the mirage of us
hands locked, smiling,
as it fades into the white desert.
I touch you, straighten the sheet, you turn over
in the bed, tender
sun comes through the curtains
Which of us will survive
which of us will survive the other”
Source: Power Politics: Poems
“The accident in your rearview mirror already happened. The one in front of you is still preventable. Pay attention.”
“The accident rate in professional astronomy summit workers seems unusually high.”
“The accident," she said finally, "happened because Klaus was hypnotized."
"What your brother does for a hobby is none of my concern," Sir said.”
Source: The Miserable Mill
“The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.”
“The Accidental American
(Naskaristana 2753)
Five whole years I went from
door to door, looking for support,
I wanted to build my own tech startup,
but all I received was ridicule and advise -
finally I withdrew myself
from the nation I was born in,
and placed all my attention on America -
I had zero money, my only assets were
my heart and brain, which was all I needed
to reshape America, then the whole world.
The Naskar you know is a direct outcome
of the entrepreneur that never came to life -
naskar the youngster failed in his innovation dreams,
so Naskar the Civilization emerged as the earth way of life.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.”
Source: Philosphical Discussions
“The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“The accidents are things that audiences always remember most, I've found on my own movies. The things that they like the most are the things that were just by accident. So you have to create a situation where nothing but accidents can happen the entire time.”
“The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.”
“The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.”