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“The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.”

Men Looks Made Important Law President Decision Built Function Court Democratic Congress Supreme Traditional Great Men Supreme Court Citizenry Decisions Made Important Decisions

Author:Howard Zinn

“Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization.”

People Values Creation Higher Organization Function

Author:Robin Sharma

“Intuition is like a radio station.. No, intuition is more like a radio receiver and it can receive different stations. This radio receiver serves different functions, it serves your spirituality which is the development of your soul. It serves your physical survival.”

Different Soul Spirituality Development Survival Function Radio Intuition Your Soul Stations Receiver Radio Stations

Author:Gary Zukav

“One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.”

Mind Heart Self Feelings Spirit Levels Quality Our Lives Perception Survival Function Practicals Developing Internals Pondering

Author:Caroline Myss

“If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.”

Ifs God Function Titles Exclusive Deities

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.”

Mean Soul Self Suffering Turns Force Growth Violence Function Resistance Reform Passive Purification Soul Force Passive Resistance

Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

“The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.”

Men Whole Education Teach Function Occupation

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.”

Giving Mind Country Expression Function Journalism Fearless Journalist Peculiar Definite

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.”

Giving Self Government Evil Function Rama Charter Self-government Devotee Irrevocable

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano.”

Men Book Humor Funny Watches Husband Function Combination Piano Addresses My Husband Multiple Telescopes Address Books

Author:Rita Rudner

“I don't think rock music has any positive function.”

Thinking Rocks Function Rock Music

Author:Charlton Heston

“Directing is monumentally complicated and it's a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I'm not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, 'yeah, it's good!' Some day.”

Thinking Would Be Pay Function Yeah Complicated

Author:Ben Affleck

“Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.”

Choices Three Function Luck Lifestyle Three Things Genetics

Author:Bill Walton

“Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.”

Ifs Way Mean Whole Language Rooms Rocks Objects Fit Paper Projects Function Males Gender Feminine Masculine Vienna

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.”

Purpose Comedy Strange Function

Author:Bo Burnham

“All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they'll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won't be the same as what I grew up with.”

Thinking Way Looks Purpose Media Grew Grew Up Function One Way Relevance Versatile New Media

Author:Bill Watterson

“Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.”

Form Can Do Function Architect

Author:Bill Watterson

“I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.”

Thinking Should Together Christ Differences Function Claims Various Followers Day To Day Many Friends Being Together

Author:Billy Graham

“My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function.”

Night Crazy Masters Genius Function Comic Related Saturday Metaphysical Monk Saturday Night Satirical Goofy Saturday Night Live

Author:Tom Robbins

“I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.”

Ifs Wells Looks Body Spiritual Father Levels Emotional Husband Highest Intellectual Function

Author:Willi Smith

“The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.”

“True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience”

Ideas Truth Names Process Function Verification

Book:Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)

Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)

“When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function.”

People Moments Spiritual Joy Teacher Identity Function Temporary Spiritual Teachers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.”

Happens Spiritual Courses Left Teacher Teaching Identity Function Spiritual Teachers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.”

Ifs World Would Be Spiritual Teacher Identity This World Function Delusion Spiritual Teachers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.”

People Thinking Kind Art Important Stuff Function

Author:Patti Smith

“Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.”

People Important Bits Function Performing Horizon

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it's thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.”

Humans Humor Funny Law Universe Courses Failing Function Down And Endeavor Collapse Slow Down Gigs Pointless Rendering Entropy Slowing Of Context Thermal

Author:Bill Bailey

“In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.”

Thinking Knows Years Humans Ideas Reason Brain Demand Function Suspects Principal Doing You Leading Me Rationalize Lizards Human Reason

Author:Dave Hickey

“It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.”

Thinking Self Environment Mom Mets Function My Mom Insane Grandmother Sane My Grandmother

Author:Jenny Lawson

“Sometimes HR transformations have been definitions. Just because someone does an e-HR system or puts in a new talent system or changes the HR function does not mean an HR transformation has occurred. We identified four phases of HR transformation. Missing any of the four phases would be an incomplete effort.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Sometimes Would Be Effort Four Talent Missing Function Transformation Definitions Phases Incomplete New Talent

Author:Dave Ulrich

“Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.”

Wells Whole Brain Function Whole Foods Brain Function

Author:Marilu Henner

“You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.”

Knows Needs Mean Stills Play Running Young Leader Know How Player Team Function

Author:Berti Vogts

“We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is very important but... not as important as we believe. Most of the important things that we do don't depend on memory. To hear, to see, to touch, to feel happiness and pain; these are functions which are independent of memory; it is an a priori thing. Thus, for me, what memory does is to modify that a priori thing, and this it does in a very profound way.”

Way Feels Believe Doe Important Pain Certain Individual Memories Roles Depends Evolution Function Independent Important Things Profound Nervous Nervous System

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“The future of human relationships will be directly related to the cerebral functions. For this reason it is already a fundamental thing. In the past, and well until today, some South American countries have had a great neuropharmacological history, since the natives' times. It is necessary that we remind ourselves of the many licit and illicit drugs that were generated in our continent and that act on the brain.”

Humans Wells Country Reason Today Past Brain Drug Function Fundamentals South Related Continents Human Relations Human Relationships Cerebral

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“The Neurosciences do not exist exclusively to understand man's nature. They also serve a social function, such as in the treatment of the cerebral diseases or when helping us to have a more pleasant and constructive life. It is a thing that one could explore well.”

Men Wells Helping Social Disease Function Pleasant Treatment Neuroscience Constructive Cerebral

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good discipline, I'm able to write every day and do films and not go six times over the budget. I mean I'm a coherent person, but I also don't like to go through tunnels when I travel. I'm claustrophobic.”

Writing Wells Mean Persons Able Film Certain Discipline Six Areas Function Very Good Budgets Tunnels Good Discipline

Author:Woody Allen

“We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.”

People Country Courses Results Company Benefits Function Investment Profit Partners Welcome Our Country Firm Investors Entitled Venture Assured

Author:Evo Morales

“My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.”

Ifs Knows World Should Writing Mean Character Helping Stories Body Political Deals Break Economy Elements Research Function Breaking Down Starving Main Characters

Author:Leigh Bardugo

“I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.”

Function Busy Cousin

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.”

Men Humans Art Universe Behavior Hollywood Function Considering Irrational Human Behavior Unpredictable Frailty

Author:William Faulkner

“It's easy to talk about our system not functioning. It's actually functioning exactly the way we've designed it to function by giving so much power to the political parties, which all of our, you know, leading founders - Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison - all said don't create political parties like the ones we have now. We did it, and we're paying a very high price for it.”

Knows Way Giving Said Political Easy Party Function Founders Political Parties Madison High Prices

Author:Mickey Edwards

“No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function.”

Individual Attention Influence Morality Function Pay Attention Features Participants

Author:George Soros

“The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Ability Forget Consciousness Effects Self Help Function Ill Producers

Book:You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

Source: You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

“The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.”

World Way Seeing Function Paradigm Seeing The World Paradigm Shift

Author:Matthew Fox

“The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.”

“We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people”

People Moral Function Constitution Absence

Author:John Adams

“Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.”

People Running Function Constant Organize Comes And Goes

Author:Michael Gerber

“It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows - they actually make us HAPPY”

“We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.”

Needs Littles Attention Roles Objects Program Tasks Direct Function Paid Profit Immense Procedures Prestige

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

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