T Quotes
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“The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian witness. It also set up evangelicals to be disappointed when the culture did not turn out the way many expected it to turn out. So our response ought to be that we are always, in every culture, strangers in exile.”
“The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.”
“The assumption that the square of a unit vector
is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
quantities are non-associative.”
“The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.”
“The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd.”
Source: On Liberty
“The assumption that we can keep societies open and free to everybody is going to have to stop. We are going to have to recognize that some people simply are not qualified and do not want to belong a civil order. Until we begin to make discrimination along those lines, then I think we are going to be extremely vulnerable.”
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
Source: Urbanization without cities: the rise and decline of citizenship
“The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.”
“The assumption was that a calorie is a calorie. Nothing could be further from the truth. The food industry wants you to believe that because it works for them. If a calorie is a calorie, then why would you pick on any individual food stuff?”
“The assumption, which served Gandhi so well in dealing with individuals, that all human beings are more or less approachable and will respond to a generous gesture, needs to be seriously questioned. It is not necessarily true, for example, when you are dealing with lunatics. Then the question becomes: Who is sane? Was Hitler sane? And is it not possible for one whole culture to be insane by the standards of another?”
Source: Reflections on Gandhi
“The assumptions he saw in strangers’ eyes as they took in his beard and skullcap were painful to acknowledge. Khalid had considered shaving or changing his wardrobe many times over the years. It would be easier for the people around him, but it wouldn’t feel right. This is who I am, he thought.”
Source: Ayesha at Last
“The assumptions that propagandists are rational, in the sense that they follow their own propaganda theories in their choice of communications, and that the meanings of propagandists' communications may differ for different people reoriented the FCC* analysts from a concept of "content as shared" (Berelson would later say "manifest") to conditions that could explain the motivations of particular communicators and the interests they might serve.
The notion of "preparatory propaganda" became an especially useful key for the analysts in their effort to infer the intents of broadcasts with political content. In order to ensure popular support for planned military actions, the Axis leaders had to inform; emotionally arouse, and otherwise prepare their countrymen and women to accept those actions; the FCC analysts discovered that they could learn a great deal about the enemy's intended actions by recognizing such preparatory efforts in the domestic press and broadcasts. They were able to predict several major military and political campaigns and to assess Nazi elites' perceptions of their situation, political changes within the Nazi governing group, and shifts in relations among Axis countries.
Among the more outstanding predictions that British analysts were able to make was the date of deployment of German V weapons against Great Britain. The analysts monitored the speeches delivered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels and inferred from the content of those speeches what had interfered with the weapons' production and when. They then used this information to predict the launch date of the weapons, and their prediction was accurate within a few weeks.
*FCC - Federal Communications Commission”
Source: Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology
“The assurance of every truth of Scripture is just the beauty of it. First because He has promised to do it; and God's promises are bonds that never yet were dishonored. Secondly, because Christ Jesus hath taken an oath that He will do it.”
“The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.”
“The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.”
“The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing--God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.”
“The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?”
“The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.”
Source: Hours of Life: And Other Poems
“The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car.”
“The astonishing boy deserved someone who could mirror his elegance, yet he chose me. Of all the stars in the sky, he chose me. Of all the grains of sand, he chose me. Of all the girls, he chose me.”
Source: Royals
“The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We didn’t impose it on the Universe. That’s the way the Universe is. If this is reductionism, so be it.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“The astonishing feeling in life, is knowing that you will succeed, but the weirdest feeling; it is not knowing how and when will that happen!!”
“The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, became his friends and counsellors.”
Source: Tom Brown's Schooldays
“The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.”
“The astounding creativity of the unconscious mind is apparent from its ability to produce our incredible and exhilarating dreams. It’s amazing how many people take their dreams for granted and don’t stop to consider how extraordinary dreaming is, and how much work goes into producing a dream. Think of the time, effort, personnel and cost that goes into producing a Hollywood blockbuster. A dream can do something even better on the hoof, night after night.”
Source: Transcendental Magic: The Rise of the New Magicians
“The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country.”
“The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“The astral is the supporting ground for the physical dimension.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“The astral realm, for the last time, is a void. It is our consciousness that gives it shape.”
Source: Astral Projection: The Out-of-Body Experience Extremely Simplified
“The astringent nature of apple cider vinegar helps to clear dead skin cells and keep the pores clear. The result is clearer skin that is healthier and less prone to breakouts.”
Source: Apple Cider Vinegar Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.”
“The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us up, we cool you down.”
“The astrological chart is indeed a map of potentials and character traits, and reveals a rich portrait of a complete individual personality.”
Source: Dynamics of the Unconscious: Seminars in Psychological Astrology, Vol. 2
“The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.”
“The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.”
Source: Message from the President of the United States: Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of July 24, 1854, the Fourth Meteorological Report of Prof. James P. Espy
“The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.”
“The astronomer who hated women generally caused her so much puzzling speculation that she one day asked Mr. Stelling if all astronomers hated women, or whether it was only this particular astronomer. But forestalling his answer, she said,–
"I suppose it's all astronomers; because, you know, they live up in high towers, and if the women came there they might talk and hinder them from looking at the stars.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.”
“The astronomers at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) have built some of the most biologically toxic facilities that a sea level adapted human can work in.”
“The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.”
Source: A Kind of Magic
“The astronomical community need to start acknowledging jet aircraft contrails to be the problem that they really are!”
“The astronomy managers never told us about the central sleep apnea risks, even though we would work and sleep at high altitude.”
“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Freudian fantasy that sexual abuse doesn’t happen - that it is our illicit desires that drive us crazy. A century ago, Freud recoiled from his own theory of the sexual seduction of children and projected the problem back into the patient. He claimed in his Aetiology of Hysteria that clients, typically women, were describing their fantasies, not facts, not ‘real events’. P3”
Source: Stolen Voices: The People and Politics Behind the Campaign to Discredit Childhood Testimony
“The asylum, he was beginning to suspect, wasn't just a repository for the broken-minded. It was a tomb, and he, John, the stoic, cynical nurse, was merely one of its unwitting caretakers, complicit in the very secrets he now felt compelled to uncover.”
Source: The Old Asylum: A Haunting Gothic Psychological Thriller
“The [asylum-seeking] children are embodying a sociocultural phenomenon. Their story has been written across nations, in a combination that has made them unique. It has been impacted by poor social circumstances, poor nutrition, epigenetics, abusers, authority figures, politicians, parents, doctors and the media.”
Source: The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
“The asylum years taught me a lot about myself. Bear in mind I’m the only lunatic in the United Kingdom who spent time in all three max secure asylums, which you should now know are…Rampton, Broadmoor and Ashworth. Don’t ask me which is the best or the worst, as how do you compare insanity with insanity?”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.”
“The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.”
“The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.”
Source: Firefly Lane
“The atavistic conundrums of history's footsteps may trespass a while, but they do not linger in the cavernous labyrinth of my mind's diptych.”