Best function & failing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.”

Long War Might Realizing Situation Moral Failing Function Heat Substitutes Propose

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.”

Believe Kind Doe Self School Learning Failing Easier Function Self Education

Book:Science Past, Science Future

Source: Science Past, Science Future

“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

“We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.”

People Knows World Way Giving Persons Art Ends Certain Sports Religious Know How Failing Function Meaningful Graves Awful Meaning Of Life Nonsense Meaningless Life Means

Author:Woody Allen

“Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it's thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.”

Humans Humor Funny Law Universe Courses Failing Function Down And Endeavor Collapse Slow Down Gigs Pointless Rendering Entropy Slowing Of Context Thermal

Author:Bill Bailey

“It has a lot to do with just sort of trust in the relationship that builds between the filmmaker and the subject. There are some people who will never be relaxed in front of a camera, and in some ways that's my failing as a filmmaker to not put them at ease. It's also a function of time, and if you have that type of time.”

People Ifs Way Failing Subjects Fronts Type Function Cameras Ease Filmmaker Relaxed

Author:Liz Garbus

“Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects.”

Reality Eye Form Force Results Christianity Lord Failing Subjects Figures Taught Projects Flow Function Perceive Expenses Icons Obedient Taught Us Looking Down Docile Fabrication

Book:Anti-Oedipus

Source: Anti-Oedipus

“The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.”

Firsts Persons Self Quality Failing Achievement Function Self Respect Dependent Admiration Grandiose

Book:The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.”

Trying Hard Running Games Pay Attention Failing Students Broken Function Pay Attention Running Away Jest Infinite Jest

Book:Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“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

“You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold Just that something so good just can't function no more. When love, love will tear us apart again.”

Sleep Failing Cry Tears Taste Mouths Function Confusion Desperation

Author:Ian Curtis

“Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.”

Needs Humans Whole Government Church Failing Industry Function Institutions Reconstruction Human Freedom

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.”

World Mind Humans Long Body Running Purpose Dies Animal Failing Failure Arms Survival Function Cease Useless Schemes Human Body Decree Slowly But Surely

Author:B. C. Forbes

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