“I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.” ChildrenDifferentRealActorsGoneFunctionVariousAgentsOccasionsEstatesSurferDifferent LifeChild ActorsEstate Agents Author:Mike Lookinland
“Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.” WonderfulSmartFunctionManagementTradeAgentsWonderful ThingsSigningDraftingFree Agents Author:David Stern
“The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.” PeopleDoeEnjoyWealthTroublePrideFunctionSpendingAgentsChiefsGentlemanHostSoleConsumptionClerksLandlord Author:David Lloyd
“Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.” ThinkingFirstsWholeStoriesNumbersHappenedDogEvidenceAreasCatFunctionAgentsNativeCompanionEfficientAccurateGrainEgyptPsychicsSnakesTamedWeaselsRodentsMayans Author:William S. Burroughs
“Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.” DogCatFunctionAgentsCompanionEfficientPsychicsSnakesWeaselsRodents Book:The Cat Inside Source: The Cat Inside
“Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.” ThinkingWayFirstsStatesHappensActionOrderViewsAttentionMoralPsychologyTheoryStandardsEthicsFunctionComplexesAgentsVarietySaltRealismWorth It Book:Moral Realism: A Defence Source: Moral Realism: A Defence
“The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.” MindMayGovernmentLyingAcceptingTaxesMassFunctionPoliceInstrumentsSoldierAll TimeAgentsTitlesCharacteristicsPriestsProtectedPrincipalIndispensableOrganisationCollectorsOppressorsYokeTraders Author:Errico Malatesta