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“In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.”

World Reason Purpose Religion Causes Function No Reason

Book:Consciousness Explained

Source: Consciousness Explained

“Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.”

Religion Function Priests

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.”

Ifs Should Reason Use Quality Function Photographer Contrary Mediums Reason Why No Reason Realistic Lenses

Book:Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

“While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.”

May Problem Stuff Wealth Effort Effects Security Function Generosity Generous Appetite Antidote

Author:Andy Stanley

“Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.”

Wells Mean Doe Made Body Age Law Dies Failing Eternal Skins Function Errors Physics Cells Genes Organs One Word Eternal Life Laws Of Physics Sluggish

Author:Michio Kaku

“I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.”

Feels Home Environment Function Studios Desert Artificial Jungle Alaska Antarctica Sahara Sahara Desert

Author:Werner Herzog

“Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.”

Science Function Guilty Sociology Alarms

Author:Hortense Calisher

“Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.”

Ifs Mind States Depression Function Active Observers Frenzy Paralysis

Book:Kinflicks

Source: Kinflicks

“We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.”

Humans Sex Function Hypocrisy Conventions Taboo Commonplace

Author:Ilka Chase

“The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.”

Light Mystery Function Make Sense

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Activity Function Cease Sooner Or Later

Book:The Greek Way

Source: The Greek Way

“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.”

“I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.”

Believe I Believe Function I Believe In Italian

Book:My Autobiography: With

Source: My Autobiography: With

“The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.”

Should Wells Turns Work Known Months Office Six Letters Should Have Function Track Chiefs Six Months Turn-on Should Have Known Memos

Author:Jilly Cooper

“One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.”

Children Two Passion Grows Loses Growing Up Tears Sorrow Capacity Function Rage Manage Manners Grieving Civilized

Book:Brief lives

Source: Brief lives

“Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.”

Knows Men Giving Values Individual Leadership Leader Know How Groups He Man Draws Function Regard Management Initiative Recognizing Defining

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved that explanation and prediction could be based on laws which accounted for the observed phenomena as functions of comparatively few variables - either particular facts or relative frequencies of events.”

Facts Remember Law Events Fields Particular Function Chiefs Explanation Relative Predictions Rapids Frequency Variables Physical Science

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.”

Giving Wealth Function

Author:Anita Roddick

“The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.”

Important Function Management Adulthood Fertility

Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

“The function of pop music is to be consumed.”

Music Music Is Function Pops Consumed Pop Music

Author:Pierre Boulez

“I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.”

Used Nations Citizens Protect Function Police Great Nations

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge.”

People Humans Important Hands Individual Work Responsibility Careers Skills Connections Function Possession Reputation Firm Networking Organizational

Book:Men and Women of the Corporation

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation

“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.”

Ifs Should Together Jobs Force Social Company Support Models Concern Female Tasks Organization Function Psychological Related Deficiency Sociability Task Forces Positive Image

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.”

Men Should May Has Beens Home Mother Father Winning Function Bread Division Providing Patriarchy Monopoly Protective Submissive

Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.”

Two War Sometimes States Political Answers Secret Generations Happened Cost Resources Function Congress Empowering Presidency Equations Deliberate Dropping Total War Autonomous Cost Of War

Author:Rachel Maddow

“If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.”

Ifs Want Feels Should Wells Kind Long Certain Can Do Mines Please Activity Should Have Function Sexuality Partners Damn Legality Bodily Functions

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?”

Ifs Mind Children Poetry Function Petty Cautious

Book:The Middleman and Other Stories

Source: The Middleman and Other Stories

“Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.”

Art Important War Military Genius Skills Highest Function Strategy Department Art Of War

Book:Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

Source: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

“We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself.”

Ifs Mind May Made Helping Might Happens Eye Decision Situation Missing Expectations Function Disappointment Valuable Finding Yourself Unhappiness Fulfilled

Book:Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

Source: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

“Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.”

Should Function Surprise Patterns Texture

Author:Robert Denning

“In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.”

United Cities Tree Example Function Financial London Miles Kingdoms Overwhelming Sheer Fabulous Dominance Poisonous Notorious United Kingdom

Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.”

Ifs Knows Wells Problem Artist Belief Strong Know How Groups Style Painting Skills Draws Function Drawing Painter Abstract Muscles Grounded Sculpture Anatomy Biased

Author:Guity Novin

“All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it.”

People Want Littles Different Fashion Ready Clothes Function Designer Ahead Of Time

Book:Men can take it

Source: Men can take it

“One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.”

Humans Justice Human Beings Function

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and father and no man would ever conceive of those relationships as instruments of his prime function in life. Yet every woman is raised, still, to believe that the fulfillment of these relationships is her prime function in life and, what's more, her instinctive choice.”

Men Believe Doe Stills Choices Father Wish Husband Function Instruments Raised Fulfillment Prime Salt Husband And Father

Book:Essays in feminism

Source: Essays in feminism

“The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.”

Trying Use Age Language Responsibility Creative Alive Function Primaries Tissues Use Of Language

Author:Jorie Graham

“But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.”

Ifs Men Soul Activity Function Virtuous What Is Happiness

Author:Aristotle

“Wear whatever makes you less sad and feels right when it's on. Don't wear too many things that serve no function. Wear what you can wear on a bicycle. Wear what you can run in or survive in if necessary. If something feels right, wear it all the time. Don't look too cool. Keep some things in!”

Ifs Feels Looks Running Function Bicycle Feels Right Too Cool

Author:Margaux Williamson

“To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.”

Persons Goal Function Commodity

Book:Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon

Source: Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon

“I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f - - thing. First, I couldn't function without it. Then I couldn't do anything with or without it. Then I thought, "This is the end of the line for my fun days."”

Firsts Ends Used Fun Lines Function Smoke Cigarette Dope Smack Cigarette Smoke Fun Day

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience you get, how much you're willing to expand your limits, how willing you are to develop your own style. If you're willing to put 10,000 hours, something amazing is going to happen.”

Ifs Happens Process Hours Simple Style Fields Willing Masters Limits Argument Function

Author:Robert Greene

“I don't like jokes about sex or bodily functions or drug use or the difference between New York and L.A. I never do any of that.”

Use Sex Differences New York Drug Jokes Function Drug Use Bodily Functions

Author:David Letterman

“When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.”

Reason Film Young Artist Actors Sides Balance Involved Function Flip Young Actors

Author:James Franco

“In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.”

Form Religion Causes Function Rewards Stupidity Questioning Empiricism Gullibility

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.”

Art Real Passion Sex Imagination Love Is Creation Activity Function Mysterious Feds Rivals Perversion

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life is to be feeding, clothing and educating the young. However, their really important ministry is to listen to their children and enable them to uncover the special blueprint that is theirs.”

Children Important Reason Young Life Is Parent Special Function Difficulty Chiefs Clothings Ministry Feeding Blueprints Educating The Young

Book:Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them

Source: Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them

“Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.”

Illusion Function Crucial Maintenance

Author:Sheila Ballantyne

“To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.”

Ends Culture Growth Development Intellectual Function Endeavor Decay Barbarism Emergence Stagnation

Author:Paul A. Baran

“as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.”

Made Information Office Function Setting Settings Speakers Parliament Request

Book:The House of Commons at Work

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.”

People Knows Kind Order Belief Moral Know How Function Code Deities Moral Code

Author:Mel Gibson

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