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I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.


Ken Thompson


#found #gardening #i #increasingly #job

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.


Richard Thompson


#experiences #extremes #hear #human #human nature

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.


John Thorn


#blissfully #death #definition #fully #ignorant

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.


William Irwin Thompson


#cultural #culture #enough #evolution #first

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.


William Irwin Thompson


#culture #cultures #description #history #ideally

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.


Henry David Thoreau


#alive #aright #better #creature #dead

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.


Henry David Thoreau


#another #break #government #i #injustice

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.


Henry David Thoreau


#calls #characteristic #endeavor #endure #face

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.


Edward Thorndike


#accustomed #beings #controlling #events #having

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.


Alvin Toffler


#cannot #does #future #how #illiterate






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