T Quotes
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“The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.”
“The dice are stacked against them”
“The dice cannot read their own spots.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“The dice of love are
shouting and madness.”
“The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.”
“The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energy and money and attention. And the military industrial complex, which dominates our whole economy. Even with the vision of democracy in other places we know the dark side.”
“The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.”
“The dichotomy between lightness and weightiness in life
resonates with many aspects of human existence. By shedding tangible and intangible burdens, we can achieve freedom and peace of mind. ("The unbearable heaviness of being")”
“The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.”
“The dichotomy of life is that
it organically tutors us to visualise dreams in childhood but, not necessarily do those dreams come true inch-perfect as we envision them.
Life edifies the reality of those dreams. Dreams that may arrive to us in mismatched forms but in essence, only encased differently, sometimes close to what we thought and sometimes not.
It is the perspective of discreetly seeing things that come our way,
that generates wisdom and
happiness within us.”
Source: DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?
“The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.”
“The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.”
Source: The Secret Book of Paradys
“The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.”
“The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship”
“The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.”
Source: The company she keeps
“The dictator’s black hand had
made China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons”
Source: Butterfly Tears
“The dictator says "You are allowed to think as you want" but never write it down or talk about it. If you cross these borders we cannot guarantee your security”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“The dictator turns to fear to command, but that doesn't mean you can't command through love and humanity.”
“The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.”
“The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.”
Source: Memoral Addresses and Tributes
“The dictatorship has important economic consequences. For one thing, it makes disasters more likely. Because feedback is suppressed by censorship and repression, it is much easier than would otherwise be the case to pursue policies which have disastrous consequences, such as the collectivisation of agriculture. Even when these policies lead to famine, the extent of the famine can be hidden by censorship and control over the movement of people. The leadership has an interest in hiding the extent of the famine so as not to undermine the image of the Glittering Future towards which the Party is supposedly leading society. It is not an accident that the worst famines of the twentieth century were in China and the USSR.”
Source: Socialist Planning
“The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.”
“The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.”
“The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.”
“The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.”
“The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“The dictionary contains no metaphors.”
Source: The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language
“The dictionary defines discretion as the quality of showing discernment, the ability to make responsible decisions, and behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense to others or revealing private information. Doing what is right is not always easy and can require uncommon courage. Be brave my friends, living right is its own reward.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“The Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't know I was bonkers!”
“The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian anarchist is therefore one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the moneychangers, and does not need a cop to tell him how to behave. A Christian anarchist does not depend upon bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One-Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused, and dying world.”
Source: The Book of Ammon
“The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May we add, a selfish person is often one who refers to 'I,' 'me,' and 'mine' rather than to 'we,' 'ours,' 'yours,' or 'theirs.' This person is anxious to be in the limelight, to be on center stage in life's little dramas. He or she may be a poor listener, or a conversation monopolizer. Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself to be selfish.”
“The dictionary explained that the expression mother-soul-abandoned alone was derived from people-soul-abandoned alone and served to emotionally reinforce the adjective. A being that has been abandoned by a mother’s soul, you deduced, is one that has been abandoned by all others or even by the very soul itself and is, therefore, not only lonely but also downright damned to remaining forever expelled, with neither help nor home, speechless and therefore soulless, full of mute rage and yet filled to the brim with words that it would scream.”
Source: Moor
“The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.”
“The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly where he started, simply because words are defined in terms of other words, and these, in turn, are defined in terms of still other words.”
Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk
“The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.”
“The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.”
“The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.”
“The dictionary is the only book that's not required to reference anybody.”
“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.”
“The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.”
Source: Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary
“The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.”
Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.”
“The dictum that “online you are the content you create and the content you share” takes on new shape and form and obviously power when it comes to Hangouts on Air”
Source: Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time
“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“The DID patient should be seen as a whole adult person with the identities sharing responsibility for daily life. Despite patients’ subjective experience of separateness, clinicians must keep in mind that the patient is a single person and generally must hold the whole person (i.e., system of alternate identities) responsible for the behavior of any or all of the constituent identities, even in the presence of amnesia or the sense of lack of control or agency over behavior.
From p8
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. (2011). Guidelines for treating dissociative identity disorder in adults, third revision: Summary version. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 12, 188–212.”
“The die has been cast.”
“The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.”
“The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.”
“The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.”