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TALENT : The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. (Hector Berlioz, French Romantic composer and symphony conductor, 1803-1869)

TALENT : Native talent is the most evenly distributed resource in the world. It is a resource that can be tapped wherever it is. (Unknown source)

TALENTS : There are so many gifts still unopened from the day of your birth. (Khajeh Hafiz, Persian poet and philosopher, c.1320-1389)

TAXATION : Taxation is how the sheep are shorn. (Edward Abbey, U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)

TAXES : Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. (Unknown Source)

TAXES : Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. (Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)

TAXES : Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

TAXES : The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away. (John S. Caldwell)

TAXES - EDUCATION : The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. (Unknown Source)

TEACHER : Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. (Unknown Source)

TEACHERS : The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

TEACHERS : Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. (Japanese proverb)

TEACHERS : The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. (Giovanni Ruffini, Italian poet, 1807-1881)

TEACHING : Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. (Anton Chekhov, Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904)

TEACHING : The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. (Unknown Source)

TEACHING : I am not a teacher but an awakener. (Unknown Source)

TEACHING : The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.' (Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator, 1870-1952Politics: It seems like the less a politician amounts to the more he adores the flag. (Kin Hubbard, U.S. cartoonist and humorist, 1868-1930)

TEACHING : We are the best teachers when we are active learners. (Unknown source)

TEACHING : Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. (Gail Godwin, U.S. author whose novels have included five best-sellers, 1937)

TEACHING : I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. (Socrates, classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, 470-399 BCE)

TEACHING : Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. (Native American proverb)

TEACHING : By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. (Latin proverb)

TEACHING : The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly. (David Ausubel, U.S. pioneer of cognitive psychology, 1918-2008)

TEACHING : I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. (Rebecca West, U.S. author and journalist, 1892-1983)

TEACHING : I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

TEACHING : Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. (Anton Chekhov, Russian physician, short-story writer, and dramatist, 1860-1904Knowledge: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. (Jimmy Wales, Internet entrepreneur and the co-founder of Wikipedia, the online non-profit encyclopedia, Born 1966)

TEACHING : Every student needs someone who says, simply, You mean something. You count. (Tony Kushner, U.S. playwright, screenwriter, and recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Born 1956)

TEACHING : Teachers make all other professions possible. (Unknown source)

TEACHING : Students tend not to care about how much a professor knows until they know how much he/she cares. (David Sanfilippo, U.S. college administrator)

TEACHING : Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. (U.S. news columnist, 1936-1999)

TEACHING - LEARNING : The important thing is not somuch that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. (Unknown Source)

TEACHING - LEARNING : The important thing is not somuch that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. (Sir John Luccock, English banker, scientist, polymath, 1834-1913)

TEACHING—LEARNING : One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to someone else. (Unknown source)

TEAMWORK : It is not yours to necessarily finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it. (Unknown source)

TECHNIQUES : The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. (Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)

TECHNOLOGY : Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. (James Carwell)

TECHNOLOGY : Ethics in technology is essential in the decades to come. (Kumail Nanjiani, Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and podcast host., Born 1978)

TECHNOLOGY : Technology is literally an extension of man, as the ax is an extension of the hand, the wheel as an extension of the foot. Communications technology, on the other hand, is an extension of thought, of consciousness, of man's unique perceptual capacities. Thus, communication media, broadly used to include all modes all symbolic representation, are literally extensions of mind. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

TECHNOLOGY : We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

TECHNOLOGY (INTERNET) : It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

TENACITY : The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. (Amelia Earhart, U.S. aviation pioneer [first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean] and author, and author, 1897-1937)

THEATER : We do not go to the theatre . . . to escape the pressures of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it. (Charles Lamb, English poet and essayist, 1775-1834)

THEORIES : Stories unite people: theories divide them. (Unknown source)

THEORIES : A good example is worth a thousand theories. (Stanley Fischer, U.S. and Israeli economist, Born 1943)

THEORIES : A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. (Edgar Watson Howe, U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor, 1853-1937)

THINKERS : The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion --- these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. (Jerome Bruner, U.S. psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory, 1915-2016)

TIME : How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. (Theodor Seuss Geisel [pen name of Dr. Seuss], U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books, 1904-1991)

TIME : I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

TIME : Time It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Carl Sandburg, U.S. poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)

TIME : Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. (Unknown Source)

TIME : Time is the coin of your life. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Carl Sandburg, U.S. poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)

TIME : Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. (Richard Ben Sapir, U.S. novelist,1936-1987)

TIME : You will never find time for anything. You must make it. (Charles Buxton, English brewer, philanthropist, and member of Parliament, 1823-1871)

TIMING : Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season. (Bette Bao Lord, Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights, Born 1938)

TOLERANCE : In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

TORTURE : The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1875-1961)

TOTALITARIAN : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. (Hannah Arendt, German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

TOTALITARIANISM : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. (Hannah Arendt, German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

TOUCHING : Skin is the largest organ of the human body. (Sally Warwick, U.S. physical therapist, Born 1938)

TRAGEDY - COMEDY : Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. (Unknown Source)

TRAGEDY - COMEDY : Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. (Jean de la Bruyere, French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

TRAVEL : The more I travel, the more I realize that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. (Shirley MacLaine, U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author, Born 1934)

TRAVEL : When traveling, you learn who you are, and are not, when you're splashed up against a foreign environment. (Shirley MacLaine, U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author, Born 1934)

TRAVEL : Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. (Neale Donald Walsch, U.S. author, author, actor, screenwriter, and speaker, Born 1943)

TRAVEL : The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page. (Unknown Source)

TRAVEL : The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. (Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, 1930-2013)

TRAVEL : A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

TRAVEL : Own what you can always carry with you; know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your bag. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1918-2008)

TRAVEL : One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the home shore. (Andre Gide, French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

TRAVEL : Travel is always both a window and a mirror. Partly what you do is discover another place, and part of what you do is view yourself and your own country differently. (Andrew Solomon, U.S. writer on politics, culture, and psychology, Born 1963)

TRAVEL : Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the grade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

TRAVEL : A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent . . . will go to seed if he always remains in the same place. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician, 1756-1791)

TRAVEL : We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us. (Unknown Source)

TRAVEL : Our moment on stage is so brief, but if you can be aware of the ingredients that make up the stage upon which you live your life, you can enjoy the dance of life ever so much more. (Ruth Kirk, U.S. naturalist, photographer, and author, Born 1944)

TRAVEL : It is through travel that we catch a glimpse of the unity, the continuous and the discrete, the forest and the trees -the pieces of the mosaic that give us the sum of life. (Richard Bangs, U.S. travel writer, Born 1950)

TRAVEL : Those who wander are not necessarily lost. (Joseph Stine, U.S. playwrigt best known playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba, 1912-2010)

TRAVEL : The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page. (St. Augustine, Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)

TRAVEL : Those who wander are not necessarily lost. (Joseph Stine, U.S. playwrigt best known playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba, 1912-2010)

TRAVEL : Those who wander are not necessarily lost. (Unknown Source)

TRAVEL : Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends. (Maya Angelou, U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

TRAVEL : A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)

TREES : Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. (Czeslaw Milosz, Polish writer, Nobel laureate, Born 1911)

TROUBLE : Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, and poet, 1813-1855)

TROUBLES : Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. (Henry Kaiser, U.S. ship-building industrialist who later developed Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Steel, as well as Kaiser Permanente health care, 1882-1967)

TROUBLES : In the rubble of your trouble lies the seed of what you need. (Ida Oja Donohue, U.S. poet, born 1928)

TROUBLES : The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. (Bernard Baruch, U.S. statesman and financier, 1870-1965)

TROUBLES : Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles. (Charles Chaplin, English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film, 1889-1977)

TROUBLES : When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. (Unknown source)

TROUBLES : Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

TRUST : The most expensive thing in the world is trust, which takes years to earn and only a matter of seconds to lose. (Unknown source)

TRUTH : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. (Hannah Arendt, German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

TRUTH : Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. (Edward Abbey, U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)

TRUTH : In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. (George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, 1903-1950)

TRUTH : All great truths begin as blasphemies. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

TRUTH : If you bury the truth, a thousand lies will sprout from the soil. (Unknown Source)

TRUTH : Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. (Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

TRUTH : On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

TRUTH : If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. (E.O. Wilson, U.S. biologist, researcher, and theorist, Born 1929)

TRUTH : Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. (Henry Wotton, English author, diplomat, and politician, 1568-1639)

TRUTH : If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

TRUTH : Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. (Unknown Source)

TRUTH : As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

TRUTH : Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. (Gautama Buddha, an Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE)

TRUTH : The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. (Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, Born 1934)

TRUTH : The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which people prefer not to hear. (Herbert Agar, U.S. journalist and historian, 1897-1980)

TRUTH : On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain. Either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. (Unknown Source)

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION : You can only move forward until you get out of reverse, such as through the Truth and Reconciliation process. (Unknown source)

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION : Seek and keep the company of those who are looking for the truth, and runaway from those who have found it. (Vaclav Havel, Czech writer, political dissident, and politician who first served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and then as the first president of the Czech Republic after the Czech-Slovak split, 1936-2011)

TRUTHFULNESS : I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. (Pietro Aretino, Italian satirist and dramatist, 1492-1556)

TYRANNY : The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrumentfor the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. (Patrick Henry, attorney, planter, orator, and one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1736-1799)

TYRANT : When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. (Lin Yutang, Hokkien, Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher and inventor, 1895-1976)