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“Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.”

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.”

“To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.”

Ends Culture Growth Development Intellectual Function Endeavor Decay Barbarism Emergence Stagnation

Author:Paul A. Baran

“Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.”

Helping Growth Brain Function Including Helpful Nerves Viruses Immune Compounds Mushrooms Nutrients Enhancement Beta Brain Function

Author:Paul Stamets

“The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.”

Mean Soul Self Suffering Turns Force Growth Violence Function Resistance Reform Passive Purification Soul Force Passive Resistance

Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

“Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.”

Growth Economy Function Increase Population Steady Globalization Exponential Growth Rampage

Author:Stephanie Mills

“The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.”

Knows Way Order Growth Attitude Conditions Function Structure Plant Gardener

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.”

Mind Ideas Helping Form Understanding Growth Pieces Fate Development Organization Function Principal Listeners

Author:Arnold Schoenberg

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”

“Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from Romanesque to Gothic or Renaissance to Baroque as common as the addition of chapels or spires. But because the function remained the same, the form could be flexible and its growth organic.”

Has Beens Art Form Growth Common Century Function Architecture Unusual Flexible Gothic Renaissance Cathedrals Chapel Baroque Spires

Author:Martin Filler

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

Humans May States Body Pain Growth Leadership Attention Criticism Function Praise Critics Flattery Human Body Unhealthy Constructive Criticism Criticism And Praise Agreeableness

Author:Winston Churchill

“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

“Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.”

“One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells.”

Wells May Reason Helping Found Grows Growth Levels Risk Blood Baby Higher Function Cancer Factors Cells Confused Milk Consumption Hormones Higher Level Insulin Bovine Growth Hormones

Author:Alison Stewart

“For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of the Bank of Canada was to maintain a delicate balance between encouraging growth and fighting inflation, the Bank opted to focus exclusively on fighting inflation. In doing so it came down heavily in favour of those with financial assets to protect, and against those whose primary need was employment.”

“We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.”

World Art Seems Lying Lost Growth Beauty Design This World Empowerment Function Personal Growth Profound Contact Collectives Communion

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”

Ifs Wells Body Age Used Growth Healthy Disease Labor Function Moderation Accustomed Liable Defective Parts Of The Body

Author:Hippocrates