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* "The art of putting the right people in the right places is first the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult."(*)
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de* "The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de* "War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men."
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de* "Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans."
Talmadge, Betty* "Blessed is the generation in which the old listen to the young; and doubly blessed is the generation in which the young listen to the old."
Talmud* "Everyone whose deeds are more than their wisdom, their wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than their deeds, their wisdom does not endure."
Talmud* "We do not see things as they are: we see things as we are."
Talmud* "Regard your neighbour's gain as your own gain; and regard your neighbor's loss as your own loss."
Taoism (6th century B.C.)* A strong man masters others. A truly wise man masters himself.
Taoist saying* "In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fait and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present."
Tao Te Ching* "Knowing others is intelligence.
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power."
Tao Te Ching* "See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are,
Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things."
Tao-Te Ching* "Those who know they have enough are rich."
Tao Te Ching* "What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly."
Tao Te Ching* "Man is a creature that in the long run has got to believe in order to know, and to know in order to do."
Tate, Allen* "An organized money market has many advantages. But it is not a school of social ethics or political responsibility."
Tawney, R.H.* " Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them."
Tawney, R.H.* "What matters is the kind of life which people lead and the satisfaction they find in it. And here, I suspect, most of us think too much of problems and too little of persons."
Tawney, R.H.* "History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past."
Taylor, A.J.P.* "If people are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own."
Taylor, A.J.P.* "This day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow. But if we look abroad and brings into one day's thoughts the evil of many, certain and uncertain, what will be and what will never be, our load will be as intolerable as it is unreasonable."
Taylor, Jeremy, theologian, (1613-1667)* "Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them."
Taylor, Susan* "Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood."
Teague Jr, Freeman* "Federation of the World
For I dipt into the future, far as the human eye could see,
Saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens filled with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;
Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples plunging thoro' the thunderstorm;
Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd
In the Parliament of men, the Federation of the World.
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-18920* "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord , Lodsley Hall (1837-8), line143.* "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord* " 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord* "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
* "I know God will not give me
anything I can't handle.
I just wish that He didn't
trust me so much."
Mother Teresa* "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
Mother Teresa* "Love on earth begins at home."
Mother Teresa* "The fruit of silence is prayer
The fruit of prayer is faith
The fruit of faith is love
The fruit of love is service
The fruit of service is peace."
Mother Teresa (supplied by Matthew Kearney)* "I believe that only by being in the presence of beauty and the great things in the world around us can man eventually get the goddam hatred of wanting to kill each other out of his system. We begin to understand, that we're only in this world such a short time its incredible we should spend these few years hating and killing each other."
Terkel, Studs, American Dreams Lost and Found.* "The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
Thackeray, William Makepeace* "The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself."
Thales* "The unexpected happens"
Thatcher, Margaret* " A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of themselves and the world around them."
Thomas, Dylan
* "We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health and longevity, but for the hope of wisdom which our kind of culture must acquire for its survival."
Thomas, Lewis 1979.* "And only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous; to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly."
Thompson, Dorothy (1894-1961)* "It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)* "Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrance to the elevation of mankind."
Thoreau, Henry David* "Pessimistic future trends can only be reversed by a fundamental change of heart in a sufficient number of people."
Thring Med (AGM British Association for the Club of Rome, 22 Sept 1999).* "All men should strive
to learn before they die
What they are running
from, and to, and why."
Thurber, James* "Men of colossal fortunes are in effect, if not in fact, trustees for the public."
Tilden, Samuel* "For the love of money is the root of all evil."
Timothy 1.6:10 Bible* "For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out."
Timothy Bible* "And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people."
Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910)*"If you want to be happy , be."
Tolstoy, Leo* " Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyse it by encumbering it with remedies."
Tolstoy, Leo
* "The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it."
Tolstoy, Leo War & Peace Book V, ch2* "There are no conditions of life to which a person cannot get accustomed, especially if they see them accepted by everyone about them." (*)
Tolstoy, Leo* "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
Tomlin, Lily* "Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?"
Torke, Michael* True leadership must be for the benefit of the flowers, not the enrichment of the leaders."
Townsend, Robert* Civilization is a movement, not a condition. A voyage and not a harbour."
Toynbee, Arnold* "Nationalism is the big enemy of the human race. Technology has made the world one, and nationalism tries to keep it apart."
Toynbee, Arnold* "The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves."
Toynbee, Arnold* "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
Toynbee, Arnold* "We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race."
Toynbee, Arnold* "Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking."
Toynbee, Polly* "As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?"
Lord Trent* "Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization."
Trevelyan, G.M.* "Education .... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
Trevelyan, G.M.* "Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it."
Trollope, Anthony* "The twentieth century really belongs to those who will build it. The future can be promised to no one."
Trudeau, Pierre* "Democracy is based on the conviction that people have the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right to govern themselves with reason and justice." (*)
Truman, Harry S.* "A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness towards themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore what they project on to others is also inharmonious and confused."
Trungpa, Chogyam, Shambhala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior* "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
Tse, Chaung* "Many Worlds -- Many Times
Look, it cannot be seen -- it is beyond form.
Listen, it cannot be heard -- it is beyond sound.
Grasp, it cannot be held -- it is intangible.
These three are indefinable;
Therefore they are joined in one.
From above it is not bright;
From below it is not dark;
An unbroken thread beyond description.
It returns to nothingness.
The form of the formless.
The image of the imageless.
It is called indefinable and beyond imagination.
Stand before it and there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
stay with the ancient Tao,
Move with the present.
Knowing the ancient beginning is the essence of Tao."
Tse, Lao, Tao Te Ching, A New Translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English, Random House (1972) in The Unseen Universe of Mind and Matter, Daniel Weiss Miller, Beyond the Realm Publishing. (1993), p204* " Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land."
Tse-Tung, Mao* "Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have roots in common interests and shared beliefs."
Tuchman, Barbara* "Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it."
Turgenev, Ivan* "Management that wants to change an institution must first show it loves that institution."
Tusa, John* "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
Twain, Mark* "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
Twain, Mark
("Anyone with a poor memory should always tell the truth")* "It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
Twain, Mark* "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."
Twain, Mark* "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
Twain, Mark* "To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler -- and less trouble."
Twain, Mark* "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the
wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we
be like the cat that sits down on a hot
stove-lid. She will never sit down on
the stove-lid again -- and that is well;
but also she will never sit down
on a cold one any more."
Twain, Mark, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.* "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
Tzu, Lao c500BC.* " As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear, and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done, the people say. 'we did it ourselves.' "
Tzu, Lao* "If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will hold onto.
If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve.
Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place.
When you handle the master carpenter's tools
Chances are that you'll cut your hands."
Tzu, Lao Tao Te Ching, verse 74.* "Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small."
Tzu, Lao* "The Universe is sacred.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it you will lose it."
Tzu, Lao Tao Le Ching* "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need."
Tzu, Lao
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* "Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind, it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness off the deep springs of life.
Youth means the temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living."
Ullman, Samuel* "The point of living, and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
Ustinov, Peter
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* "Since nothing is settled until it is settled right, no matter how unlimited power a person may have, unless they exercises it fairly and justly their actions will return to plague them."(*)
Vanderlip, Frank A.* " Human beings are perhaps never more frightened than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
van der Post, Laurens* "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Vaughan, Harry* "Go out into the woods and valleys, when your heart is rather harassed than bruised, and when you suffer from vexation more than grief. Then the trees all hold out their arms to you to relieve you of the burden of your heavy thoughts; and the streams under the trees glance at you as they run by, and will carry away your trouble along with the fallen leaves."
Vaughan, Robert (1795-1868)* "Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things."
Virgil* "They can because they think they can"
Virgil* "Love conquers all."
Virgil ("All you need is love." The Beatles)* " Our whole civilization is based on a hypothetical future and the idiocy of fortune-telling."
Vizinczey, Stephen* "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
Voltaire.* "The best is the enemy of the good."
Voltaire.
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