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“Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.”

Giving Government Political Liberty Principles Subjects Citizens Limits Authority Function Constitution Instruments Broads

Book:The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-August 1867

Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-August 1867

“But the reality is that the police serve a certain function, to maintain a certain status quo, and that's one of the things that the movie is about, because it basically gives you three options for looking at the police, as symbolized by Dave Brown.”

Giving Reality Certain Three Function Police Brown Status Quo Dave

Author:Oren Moverman

“My job is not only to give medals, you know, which certainly is part of my function. First and foremost, though, my job is about ensuring success of the work in various spheres. It is a kind of day-to-day spadework.”

Knows Giving Firsts Kind Jobs Function Various Spheres Day To Day Medal

Author:Vladimir Putin

“By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it to. 'The command of the Lord gives light and enlightens the eyes' (Ps. 19:8).”

Giving Mind Soul Light Eye Christian Lord Function Command Enlightened Orthodox Commandments Enlightening Orthodox Christian

Author:Dorotheus of Gaza

“I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”

Giving Writing Feelings Order Literature Enjoy Function Tension Milk Cows Relieved

Author:H. L. Mencken

“My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.”

Giving Church Dad Function Give Me Tables My Dad Restaurants Lots Of Money

Author:Katy Perry

“The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.”

People Want Giving Ends Break Function Taboo Mischief Tricksters

Author:Tom Robbins

“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

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.”

Ifs Giving Wells Business Television Tvs News Function Journalism Sarcasm Sarcastic Emphasis Newspapers Journalism Newspaper Reporters Television News Tv News

Author:David Brinkley

“Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.”

Giving Children Parent Dog Cat Function Our Children Devotion

Author:Alex Shakar

“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.”

“Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.”

Needs Giving Social Pleasure Consciousness Rich Example Industry Function Luxury Multitudes Organisms Incentives No Sympathy Idlers

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.”

Ifs Giving Persons Art Important Feelings Religious Views Alive Function Notion Theology Cosmic Definite Art And Science Receptive

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.”

Source: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

“I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.”

Source: The Fountainhead

“I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value C—and maintaining a steady supply of maidens—value D. If one inserts the derivative of value A (Prince) into the equation y equals BC plus CD squared, and sets it equal to zero, giving the apex of the parabola, namely, the point of intersection between A (Prince) and B (Monster), one determines value E—a stable kingdom. It is all very complicated, and if you have a chart handy I can graph it for you.”

“To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.”

People World Giving Trying Mean Reason Play Stories Happens Reading Games Fiction Happened Anxiety Happenings Function Narrative Immensity Consoling

Author:Umberto Eco

“Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.”

Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”

Thinking Giving Persons Self Hands Half Awareness Normal Function Self Awareness Very Good Endless Conclusion Desperation Time To Think Loops Living Alone

Book:One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

“The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.”

Giving Science Answers Learning Genius Function Programming Resolve Mediocrity

Book:Historical Essays

Source: Historical Essays

“Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.”

Giving Asks Justice Answers Diversity Function Social Justice University Right Answers Right Questions

Book:Art & ardor: essays

Source: Art & ardor: essays

“But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.”

Giving Firsts Eye Courses Brain Love You Office Elements Function Not Alone

Author:William Shakespeare

“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.”

Giving May Littles Joy Order Voice Love Is Creative Love You Masters Self Love Function Active Passive Back Again Enslavement Outgoing

Author:Bernard Iddings Bell

“We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!”

“I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion.”

“Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to become a man again. You have to come out of this state of unconsciousness, of mechanicalness. You have to come out of this sleep. It is possible only through meditation. There is no other way, there has never been, there will never be. The only way to reduce a man to a machine is take away his consciousness force him to function unconsciously. And just the opposite is the way of meditation: give him back his consciousness.”

Men Way Giving Mean States Done Force Sleep Consciousness Meditation Machines Opposites Function Unconsciousness Undoing

Author:Rajneesh

“For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does not say what to do and what not to do. It never gives you any commandments. It simply gives you a technique for becoming more aware, for being more alert, watchful, witnessing.”

Giving Doe Character Consciousness Meditation Becoming Needed Conscience Dignity Function Technique Commandments Becoming More

Author:Rajneesh

“My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.”

Giving Should Children Parent Brain Cases Subjects Machines Function Limitation Substitutes Passages Mechanism Breakdown Educator Passage Of Time Inexorable

Book:Speech and Brain Mechanisms

Source: Speech and Brain Mechanisms

“We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and disease. This concentration is made possible by the common function of nucleic acids as the molecular midwife of all reproductive particles. Indeed it is the nucleic acids which, in spite of their chemical obscurity, are giving to biology a unity which has so far been lacking, a chemical unity.”

Giving Years Made Common Development Essentials Disease Function Unity Fifty Spite Concentration Biology Chemicals Lacking Particles Acid Obscurity Genetics Heredity Midwife Fermentation

Author:C. D. Darlington

“There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends, and there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.”

People Ifs Love Giving Function Our Family Crap Family And Friends Imperatives

Author:David Foster

“Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out”

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