T Quotes
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“The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian.”
“The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.”
“The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.”
“The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of Christ's birth, that's the problem. It's unbelievable to me. The ACLU will no longer fight for your right to put up a nativity scene, but they'll fight for the right of the local freak who wants to stumble onto the scene and have sex with one of the sheep.”
“The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.”
“The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.”
“The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the wisdom of liberalism. The truth of the matters is that the ACLU has always been a highly politicized organization.”
“The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.”
“The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.”
“The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.”
“The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.”
“The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.”
“The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.”
“The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week.”
“The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.”
Source: The Zahir
“The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.”
Source: The Courage to Create
“The acorn does not know that it will become a sapling. The sapling does not remember when it was an acorn, and only dimly senses that it will become a mighty oak. The oak recalls fondly when it was a sapling, loves being a mighty oak, and joyfully creates new acorns.”
“The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.”
Source: Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)
“The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.”
“The acoustic physics principles behind a travelling voice are fundamental to a just and empathetic society.”
“The acoustics seem to get louder”
“The acquaintances of a well known employee is as liable as a hard worked employer”
“The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living among us today. However, it is the ideal to strive for, and in our opinion, it is only through Contrology that this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind, and spirit can ever be attained.”
Source: Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology
“The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.”
Source: Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology
“The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.”
“The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.”
“The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.”
“The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.”
“The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance - almost is the revelation of ignorance. Our knowledge of the world instructs us first of all that the world is greater than our knowledge of it. To those who rejoice in the abundance and intricacy in Creation, this is a source of joy, as it is to those who rejoice in freedom...
To those would-be solvers of "the human problem," who hope for knowledge equal to (capable of controlling) the world, it is a source of unremitting defeat and bewilderment. The evidence is overwhelming that knowledge does not solve "the human problem." Indeed, the evidence overwhelmingly suggests - with Genesis - that knowledge is the problem. Or perhaps we should say instead that all our problems tend to gather under two questions about knowledge: Having the ability and desire to know, how and what should we learn? And, having learned, how and for what should we use what we know? (pg. 183, People, Land, and Community)”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.”
Source: Standing by Words: Essays
“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The acquisition of knowledge is far more about learning how much there is that we don’t know. And if in all of our learning we haven’t learned that, I doubt that we’ve learned much of anything.”
“The acquisition of power is a challenge, the consolidation of it greater still, but the mettle and method of testing power's boundaries ultimately decides if it is fed to excess or starved to extinction.”
“The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.”
“The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.”
“The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.”
Source: The Science of Mechanics
“The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.”
“The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.”
“The acreage of our federal public lands is equivalent to the entire country of Germany seven times over. These lands provide space for hunting, fishing, and leisure activities; wildlife habitats; clean-water protection; sustainable industry; and much more. All for the public. It's about as profoundly American an idea as you can find: the democratization of land and resources and food and recreation and wildlife and scenery and space and solitude.”
Source: That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
“The acrid odor of overloaded circuitry permeated the air, the horrid smell witness that at least one of his senses was working as sights and sounds became one with the unknown. Eventually he collapsed to the floor, wondering if he'd wake up in mortality. Then the muddled spectra went black, the silence that followed only possible in the deepest sectors of space. Or death.”
Source: Beyond the Hidden Sky
“The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear”
Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“The acronym was derived from the title of the first book--a pamphlet, really-- in which Khyfo was expounded, a supposedly scatalogical phase that meant 'Don't Touch'...
The title was Keep Your Fucking Hands Off. Mean anything to you?
Not a thing.
Nor to me. But it supposedly summed up their philosophy pretty well at the time.”
Source: An Enemy of the State
“the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.”
Source: Defending Jacob: A Novel
“The act is in itself a lie. You're faking something. The girl is lying there, she's pretending that she doesn't know the camera's on, she's getting banged, and "accidentally" it leaks out? Everyone leaks their own sex tapes! That's a ploy to get famous - that's not about the sex. It's not like when Madonna did her Sex book, and it was an artistic endeavor where she acknowledged it and spoke about it and was so upfront about it. It's different. It's not upfront. It's not honest. It's a ploy to get famous.”
“The act is judged of by the event.”
“The act is learnt in the action.”
“The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.”
“The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.”