T Quotes
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“The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.”
“The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.”
“The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give.”
“The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.”
“The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.”
Source: George Meany and his times: a biography
“The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.”
“The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.”
“The basic guidelines of an ethical AI system refer to those values which can be implemented at the core of every AI algorithm to bring out the safety, security, and fundamental goodness of artificial intelligence for all beings and human society at large.”
Source: Ethical AI Systems: Frameworks, Principles, and Advanced Practices
“The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.”
“The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.”
“The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.”
Source: Cosmic Ordering Guide
“The basic idea is that there is this group that, over the centuries, has learned to control reincarnation. John's character stumbles into that realization, and it's a lot closer to him than he would ever have wanted to know. It's a metaphor for when you get in a fight with your significant other and you go, "Who is this?," or you look in the mirror and go, "Why did I say that?" It's the intruder. When you threw a temper tantrum at two years old, it's them.”
“The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.”
“The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.”
“The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.”
“The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.”
Source: Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri commemoration souvenir
“The basic idea of integral transformative practice (ITP) is simple: the more aspects of our being that we simultaneously exercise, the more likely that transformation will occur.”
Source: A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
“The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.”
“The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.”
Source: Chaos: Making a New Science
“The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct way possible, without resorting to anything external or superadded. Therefore, anything that has the semblance of an external authority is rejected by Zen. Absolute faith is placed in a man's own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.”
Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.”
“The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure to suffering or productivity to work or gratification to sacrifice or any of that stuff, which, you know, a couple generations ago, to say that kind of stuff would have made you, you know, a freak - a freak and an Epicurean - and now seems to be so much - simply an unquestioned assumption of the culture that we don't really even talk about it anymore.”
“The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.”
Source: Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
“The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.”
“The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.”
“The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.”
“The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.”
Source: The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression
“The basic intention of a person is to be in communication. When you lose, you consider there is a separation and a distance, and you have lost the ability to communicate.”
“The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.”
“The basic issue of an American society which is fair, which is providing opportunity for all, is nowadays being replaced by the correct perception that we're living in a rigged economy - where it doesn't matter how hard you worked, the result will be all the income goes to the people at the very top. It's leading to a lot of frustration and anger, and people want some fundamental changes to the way we do economics and growth.”
“The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.”
“The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.”
“The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.”
Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man
“The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.”
Source: Children of Dune
“The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.”
“The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you're supposed to look through it. It's a window.”
“The basic math suggests everyone can be saved. Earth can carry about eleven billion humans in peace, prosperity, and harmony.
The math looks like this: 1. Gaming affords a 20:1 increase in neural plasticity. 2. Immersive gaming ups that another 30:1. 3. Social Rewards systems another 10:1. 4. Roblux has already passed Twitter in popularity and time on the platform. 5. The trends all indicate Immersive Gaming will overtake Social Media in persons under 60 within ten years as the preferred communication vehicle. 6. Companion Ai affords marked improvements in new pattern uptake rates. 7. 99.9% of people are followers.”
“The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!”
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
“The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'.
Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness.
To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion,
to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.”
“The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“The basic needs, in essence, are few, but paramount to survival. And we all have them, no matter what we are destined to achieve in this world, no matter what our legacy may be. The basic needs of survival are the same for the serial killer as they are for the Nobel Prize winner.”
“The basic needs of every human being include food, water, shelter, love, security, and a sense of belonging. If you can meet these needs without complaining, you will live peacefully, successfully, and joyfully.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.”
“The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.”
“The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.”
“The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.”
Source: The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders
“The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.”
“The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term 'Gaia' is a network of processes involving feedback tubes. Humans are part of the larger whole, Gaia.”