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“Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.”

Men Ends Reality Certain Circumstances Reflection Function Vocabulary Selection Deflection

Book:On Symbols and Society

Source: On Symbols and Society

“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.”

“I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.”

“There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.”

Writing May Moments Stories Certain Process One Thing Fronts Succeed Areas Direct Function Instruments Senses Plot Psychics Continuity Entertainers

Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“There are those rare people who function like human magnets, who are individually so attractive – or repellent, depending on the situation – that a considerable amount more seems to happen to them, and likewise, their presence in a certain place makes more seem to happen around them. They’re magical people. They have special power.”

People Humans Seems Happens Certain Situation Special Amount Function Attractive Magnet

Author:Daniel Wallace

“It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.”

Ifs May Mean Certain Animal Teach Effects Circumstances Function Errors Instinct Coffee Tea Disadvantages Daily Experience

Book:Mrs Beeton's Household Management

Source: Mrs Beeton's Household Management

“All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.”

Certain Function Golf Clock Pace

Book:The Venturi System: With Special Material on Shotmaking for the Advanced Golfer

Source: The Venturi System: With Special Material on Shotmaking for the Advanced Golfer

“First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.”

Knows Firsts Wells Persons Doe Real Past Certain Growth Consciousness Intellectual Function Intelligent Intelligence Pretending Unpredictable Borrowed Phony Past Experiences Intelligent Person

Author:Rajneesh

“Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, till men of science, speculating, in their non-scientific intervals, like other men on what science may possibly lead to, have prophesied that we shall soon have to confess that the soul is nothing else than a function of certain complex material systems.”

Men May Soul Form Science Certain Materials Accounts Function Complexes Objectives Gross Endeavour Intervals

Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”

Whole Science Certain Culture Social Support Health Type Development Healthy Tradition Accounts Function Structure Application Integrated Social Structure

Author:Talcott Parsons

“The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever discharges; for while in common with them, it has certain duties for the exercise of which it is especially intended, its high character in man, as the organ of conscious life, the supreme instrument of his relations with the rest of nature, is developed only by a long and patient training.”

Men Heart Long Moments Character Certain Common Brain Duty Birth Exercise Capable Training Conscious Function Relation Instruments Patient Supreme Internals Organs Liver Discharge

Author:Ray V. Pierce

“The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the examination of fully developed species;-But to obtain an insight into the laws of development,-the signification or bedeutung, of the parts of an animal body demands a patient examination of the successive stages of their development, in every group of Animals.”

May Body Law Science Certain Natural Animal Groups Stage Development Demand Function Structure Species Patient Insight Adaptation Examination Affinity Coexistence

Author:Richard Owen

“Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.”

Certain Opinion Function Obviousness

Author:Albert Einstein

“I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Matter Certain Social Function Actresses

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.”