T Quotes
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“To avert climate crises, it's important that humanity listens to and learns from indigenous knowledge. Pairing indigenous knowledge with modern science and technology will be a win for humanity.”
“To avert climate crises, it's important that humanity protects and restores natural carbon sinks, like forests and wetlands. But modern advancements in architecture, materials science, and construction give us the ability to make our modern cities into carbon sinks. We have the technologies, the knowledge, and the capabilities to make cities more valuable to the natural ecosystem than forests are.”
“To avert climate crises, it's important that humanity shifts to permaculture economics, fostering resilience and cooperation.”
“To avert climate crisis, it's important that humanity embraces permaculture economics, prioritizing regeneration over exploitation. Interestingly enough, putting regeneration over exploitation will create more opportunities for individuals and businesses to profit.”
“To avert climate crisis, it's important that humanity recognizes the intrinsic value of nature, beyond its convertible utility.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.”
“To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life - that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion - or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so conceive of thought as essentially subservient to, or dependent on, life or fate... If not Nietzsche himself, at any rate his successors [Heidegger] adopted the second alternative.”
“To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.”
“To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“To avoid all possibility for error is to avoid all possibility for growth.”
“To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“To avoid being a diffident, contrite and regretful personality, we should work hard to explore our true potential and take a cue from our abilities to exploit available opportunities.”
“To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.”
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”
Source: Dreams From My Father
“To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.”
“To avoid blowups I stuff stuff - the patient patient.”
Source: We have our difference in common 2.
“To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.”
“To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus [holymen]; it does not consist of meat... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook of meat myself, but... meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit meat-eating in any form, in any manner and in any place; it is unconditionally prohibited for all.”
“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.”
“To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.”
“To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.”
Source: Love: Vintage Minis
“To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.”
“To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.”
Source: Pierre Et Jean
“To avoid electrolyte imbalances you have to be obtaining enough minerals from food and liquids. You also need to avoid damage to your organs like your intestines, liver and kidneys so you don’t lose the ability to absorb, reabsorb and/ or utilize these minerals. The most obvious solution is to pay more attention to what kinds of foods you eat, which supplements you may need and how much salt to consume in relation to your losses.
DiNicolantonio, Dr. James ; Land, Siim (2021-03-20). The Mineral Fix: How to Optimize Your Mineral Intake for Energy, Longevity, Immunity, Sleep and More”
“To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore all.”
“To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore them all.”
“To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.”
Source: The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence
“to avoid external realities is the way of the Black Brothers and the way of death. The way of the Tao is to accept everything that comes your way, adjust yourself to it without emotion, and forget it.”
“To avoid eye contact, kiss.”
“To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality.”
Source: A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
“To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.”
“To avoid hurting people needs constant vigilance. As one grows older one is less and less equal to the task. There are so many cruelties of omission.”
Source: A View of the Harbour
“To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.”
“To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game”
“To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.”
“To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.”
“To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.”
“To avoid pain is to avoid growth, to avoid pain is to keep the heart shut.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
“To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.”
Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“To Avoid Self Destruction Is Not To Be Grouped Through Life By Pursuing Education Alone”
“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.”
Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't
“To avoid surprises later, spend enough time to know people initially. Don't just ask the obvious. Go the extra mile... Be creative and unconventional...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.”
“To avoid the cognitive dissonance of not liing something that others seem to take so much pleasure in, we slowly change our perception of the thing we once did not enjoy.”
Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.”
“To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.”
Source: Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk