#vic

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#mind #thrilled #vice #vulgar

They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#first #found #great #great men #i

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#conviction #hatreds #inevitable #national #nourish

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#great #ideas #rather #than #thinking

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#blind #consciousness #forces #himself #historic

All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

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The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#advise #best #best way #children #find

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ↗

— Lao Tzu

#delight #how #man #men #rejoice

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#balances #devices #diplomacy #during #fascism