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“To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.”

Thinking Inspirational Mean Different States Feelings Remember Consciousness Function Oneself States Of Consciousness

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.”

Different Function Punishment Crime And Punishment

Book:Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Source: Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Wells Persons Different Whole Facts Stuff Information Bears Function Communicate Different Things Essays Kill Me Communicators Basic Things Juggernaut

Author:David Foster Wallace

“The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.”

Two Different Philosophy Political Opinion Mystery Intellectual Standards Economics Tasks Weight Function Customers Preserves Businessman Motto Hostility Popular Opinion

Author:Bertrand de Jouvenel

“Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them.”

Different Government Political Rights Dangerous Capacity Function Constitution Perceive Department Annoying Judiciary Political Rights

Book:The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793

Source: The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793

“Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.”

Different Science Differences Animal Function Organs Nomenclature Different Animals Analogue

Book:On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton

Source: On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton

“Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.”

Different Form Science Differences Animal Function Variety Organs Nomenclature Different Animals

Book:On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton

Source: On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton

“The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.”

Way Want Humans Different Challenges Lines Human Beings Modern Century Function Clean Architecture Frivolity Modern Architecture Clean Living

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.”

Ifs Way Different Function Sake Muse

Author:Morgan Freeman

“The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.”

People Way Wells Kind Art Different Culture Creativity Serious Function Ambassadors Different Cultures

Author:Herbie Hancock

“In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them by different modes of election, and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions, and their common dependence on the society, will admit.”

Littles Different Government Action Political Common Principles Republican Authority Function Election Connected Branches Divides Remedy Dependence Legislature Republican Government

Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.”

Men Kind Different Wisdom Differences Player Skills Degrees Criticism Organization Function Psychological Tennis Aviation Pilots Airplane Skillful Tennis Player

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.”

Thinking Trying Mind Persons Important Ideas Different Able Film Form Havens Tradition Function Originals Strikes Originality New Ideas Preoccupation

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language.”

Different Running Age Literature Language Differences Written Risk Media Communication Function Following Surface Bent Sharpening Written Language

Author:Italo Calvino

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