T Quotes
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“To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.”
Source: The Rambler
“To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.”
“To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.”
“To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either.”
“To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.”
“To excuse one for human assistance yet condemn another for AI assistance is a serious mistake the literary world is making — one that future generations will not forgive.”
“To excuse one for human assistance yet condemn another for AI assistance is a serious mistake the literary world is making — one that future generations will not forgive.
AI will, without doubt, be recognized as a legitimate part of the creative process.
And when that time comes, those future generations will look back and measure the damage caused by today’s double standards — the barriers that silenced authentic voices and denied deserving writers recognition and opportunity simply for using technology to express their feelings, share their visions, and communicate their experiences with the world.”
“To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.”
“To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.”
“To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise.”
“To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.”
“To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.”
“To exercise faith is to trust that the Lord knows what he is doing with you and that He can accomplish it for your eternal good even though you cannot understand how He can possibly do it...Your Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son love you perfectly.”
“To exercise is human; not to is divine.”
“To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.”
“To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.”
“To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.”
Source: The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ
“To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.”
Source: Mathematics and Logic
“To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.”
“To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.”
“To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.”
Source: Outside In
“To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.”
Source: Confessor
“To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.”
“To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.”
“To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.”
Source: Last of the Breed
“To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.”
Source: Betrayals
“To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
“To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream of fantastic conspiracies or of taking to the hills. It is to make yourself your own law. To find in yourself what counts. To make sure that you’re never “cured” of your youth. To prefer to put everyone up against the wall rather than to remain supine. To pillage whatever can be converted to your law, without concern for appearance.”
“To exist is to deny. What am I today, living today, but the denial of who and what I was yesterday? To exist is to contradict oneself.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.”
Source: Children of Dune
“To exist means to endure pain”
Source: The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection of Poems
“To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“To expand, create something out of nothing and act without reason at all.”
“To expand the definition of freedom you have to keep on setting something free…”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“To expand the horizons of your utmost destiny you have to venture beyond the confines of fear, doubt and negativity.”
“To expand their territory, they had never shied away from sacrificing lesser life in the past. Forests had been cleared, swamps drained, dams built. There had been countless examples of people destroying habitats and driving species to extinction for their own benefit. If they could do this on their own planet, why should some unknown world in the void of space be treated differently?”
Source: All You Need Is Kill
“To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.”
Source: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783
“To expect a hospitable world is hubris. Instead, expect the opposite. Expect a world that may destroy you at its whim at any moment.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.”
“To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.”
Source: Religion and Science
“To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.”
“To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“To expect an impossibility is madness.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.”
Source: The Complete Works
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it!]”
“To expect easy victories in the face of daily challenges is akin to wishing money grew like flowers in your garden”.”