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“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.”

Ifs Political Ability Economy Influence Achieve Essentials Function Independent Institutions Objectives Committees Political Influence

Author:Ben Bernanke

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a Failure Mechanism.”

Goal Creative Achieve Negative Function Unhappiness Mechanism Within You Achieving Goals

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.”

Way Achieve Directors Function Communicate Valuable Actresses Intimacy Closeness Close Relationship

Author:Peter Stone

“I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.”

Giving States Eye Spiritual Grace Achieve Function

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm; it is confined to the genitals. Just a small ripple in the genitals-and finished. It is not like possession when the whole body moves into a whirlpool and you are lost in the abyss. For a few moments time stops and the mind does not function. For a few moments you do not know who you are. Then it is a total orgasm.”

Knows Men Mind Doe Whole Moments Body Moving Lost Achieve Function Who You Are Possession Finished Locals Abyss Confined Ripple Whirlpools

Author:Rajneesh

“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.”

Wells May Mean Individual Force Failing Groups Achieve Civilization Function Intelligence Internals Adaptation Ongoing Combining Unifying Adaptive External Forces

Book:Earthseed: The Complete Series

Source: Earthseed: The Complete Series

“Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.”

Moments Watches Achieve Function Parenting Motherhood Eggs Proudest Moments

Author:Joan Rivers

“Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and drink and sleep, to become a worker... He is nothing, he can be nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfil nothing, without working.”

Men Can Do Achieve Labor Function

Author:Orville Dewey

“India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.”

Wells Real Energy Goal Economy Achieve India Function Independence Oil Gas Coal Imports Energy Independence

Author:Abdul Kalam

“Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.”

Mind States Reason Political Spirit Three Individual Justice Virtue Wise Achieve Elements Function Harmony Brave Defined Fulfillment Appetite Unjust Subordination

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic