T Quotes
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“The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.”
“The current of life never stops,' he'd say. 'One can choose to swim downstream. That's an easier trip, of course, and there's always lots of company, but sooner or later it's also where all the garbage collects.
'Upstream, on the other hand, is where the water is pure. The things that make life special and worthwhile are all upstream, and to get there, you must discipline yourself to swim against the current.
'Be most aware,' Jones would say, 'of the danger of treading water. Many people believe there are three choices: swimming upstream, swimming downstream, and holding in place by treading water.
'In reality, the choices are only two. One can struggle upstream or travel downstream, but when a person chooses to stop swimming midstream, there is no such thing as holding in place. Water - like a life without purpose - always flows downstream, and everything that does not struggle from its grasp goes downstream too.”
Source: Just Jones: Sometimes a Thing Is Impossible . . . Until It Is Actually Done
“The current of the times seems to be going down the wrong river carrying a boat with no oars.”
“The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.”
“The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system that's making it produce erratic, dysfunctional, malfunctional behaviour. Time to call a tech! And who are the techs? The shamans are the techs.”
“The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.”
“The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.”
“The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial things" as "fashionable consumption" and other pursuits more fitting for the "bewildered herd" than participation in determining the course of individual and social life.”
“The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.”
“The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.”
“The current problems in Congo (poverty, 27 million people in famine, enrichment by the top, brutal rapes, murders, ...) receive much less attention than those during the time of Leopold II.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.”
“The current public television and radio system in the United States, while it's better than nothing, that's about the best you can say about it. It's nowhere near the standard it needs to be for our society, and we've got to make a commitment to rethink the system altogether. You know, just giving more money to what exists on PBS now would be not great; we've got to have a new vision of PBS.”
“The current relationship between Syria and Iran is abnormal. It is unprecedented in Syria's foreign policy history. A new Syria will be an indispensable part of the Arab League and it will work on improving the role of the Arab League and the role of Arab states regionally, specifically because they took a historic and unprecedented decision to back the Syrian people.”
“The current's run is too wild,
and we created it.
A mermaid and mariner have so much romanticism,
but too different of backgrounds.
One breathes on grounded land,
and one breathes above and below—fluidly.
This is how she always gets stuck in their nets.
They both try for the sake of fascination,
but unlike the mermaid's lungs,
fascination runs dry.
So, they wave at the shoreline
and go back to being whoever they were:
half humans without each other.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.”
“The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.”
“The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.”
“The current socio-political climate, exacerbated by the media's addiction to falsifying our existence, has meant that being trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming in the twenty-first century feels like constantly trying to prove your existence... When we have to venture into the world, where we aren't heard, or listened to, it can feel like we are shouting against the wind.”
Source: In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life
“The current sports betting regime is defined by insufficient regulations to protect gamblers, with too many states relying on the impossible dream of sportsbooks regulating themselves.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.”
“The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.”
“The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.”
Source: Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
“The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool. But there are too many magazines, and the access has been diminished, so the quality of profiles has gone way down. Internet stuff can be really good, though. I like the dialogue between fans on the Internet. I think that's the best rock writing that's going on right now.”
“The current system for refugees who remain in their region of origin is a disaster. It is premised upon an almost exclusively 'humanitarian' response. A system designed for the emergency phase - to offer an immediate lifeline - ends up enduring year after year, sometimes decade after decade. External provision of food, clothing, and shelter is absolutely essential in the aftermath of having to run for your life. But over time, if it is provided as a substitute for access to jobs, education, and other opportunities, humanitarian aid soon undermines human dignity and autonomy.”
Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
“The current system has crashed and is now obsolete. Only a new system can solve today's global problems. Hence the rise of Tomorrow's World Order.”
Source: Tomorrow's World Order
“The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.”
“The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.”
“The current tax code is a daily mugging.”
“The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.”
Source: I Rant, Therefore I Am
“The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is a bastardization of the Constitution's requirement that copyright be for "limited times."”
“The current times have their hand in setting and creating trends, as well as establishing the milieu for social events.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.”
“The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality.”
“The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.”
“The current U.S. and Eurozone depression isn't because of China. It's because of domestic debt deflation. Commodity prices and consumer spending are falling, mainly because consumers have to pay most of their wages to the FIRE sector for rent or mortgage payments, student loans, bank and credit card debt, plus over 15 percent FICA wage withholding for Social Security and Medicare actually, to enable the government to cut taxes on the higher income brackets, as well income and sales taxes.”
“The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.”
“The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.”
“The current war on Gaza has since silenced almost 35,000 voices, shut 35,000 eyes and maimed thousands more, many of whom no longer possess the ability for expression. Yet art has a way of transcending, even flourishing, through pain; one even dares to say that pain is its greatest muse, and in Palestine pain has become part of everyday life.”
“The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.”
“The currents contained in this book are strong. They showcase that each individual shapes the world with their thoughts and actions; each individual also processes and digests the collective's greater whim. In this way, your every keystroke joins the collective consciousness, shaping the consequences of the whole.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.”
Source: Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“The curriculum is not, in practical terms, simply about knowledge being transmitted, but about how that knowledge is handled – or even how it is transcended – by teachers to enable understanding in their charges. The subject matter itself, the knowledge, while important, is less important than the opportunities it offers for the development of thinking. Knowledge, Stenhouse suggested, should principally be seen in the curriculum as a medium for thinking.
His point is perhaps doubly true today, when knowledge pure and simple – facts, information – is so easily located. [...] what can now be found in seconds may have taken days or weeks to find, so the more that could be stored in the head, the better equipped a person was for life. The world of knowledge has been turned on its head in a period of only two decades or so by the Internet, and in our thinking about the curriculum we haven’t yet worked out the consequences.”
Source: Education: A Very Short Introduction
“The curriculum is not just about what students learn; it's about how they learn and how their learning experiences can shape their identities and aspirations.”
“The curriculum of the future will be what one might call the humanistic curriculum.”
“The curse had fallen upon her shoulders, one that she had taken willingly at the time. But her regrets increased with time, much like the threads she added to the tapestries she wove.”
Source: Web Of Lies: A Goddesses In Love Novella
“The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.”
“The curse is broken. The king is returned."
He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent.
I don't care. I run into his arms.
Cardan's fingers dig into my back. He's trembling, and whether it is from ebbing magic or horror, I am not sure. But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.”
“THE CURSE
May they never
Return home at night...
May you have no part of eventide,
May you have no room of your own,
Nor road, nor return.
May your days be all exactly the same,
Five Fridays in a row,
Always an unlucky Tuesday,
No Sunday,
May you have no more little worries,
Tears or inspiration,
For you yourself are the greatest worry on earth:
Prisoner!”
Source: The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
“The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.”