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“This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.”

Has Beens Play Government Running Ought Function Congress Disaster Affected

Author:David Plouffe

“Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.”

Ifs Men World May Has Beens Seems Might Together House Can Do Animal Wonder Enemy Dog Creatures Cat Function Animal World Cat And Dog

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.”

Thinking Has Beens Impossible Function Observation Logical Logical Thinking

Book:Cosmic Memory

Source: Cosmic Memory

“I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.”

Want Giving Doe Has Beens Cases Couple Function Give Me Kicks Awards Realised Grapes Sour Sour Grapes

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.”

Believe Has Beens Said Difficult Teach Function Temptation

Book:The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time

Source: The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time

“Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.”

Needs Humans May Has Beens Art Used Creation Function Notion Humble Practicals Esteem Works Of Art Aesthetic Nobility Great Work Discernment Revision

Book:The Nature of Rationality

Source: The Nature of Rationality

“Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.”

World Doe Has Beens Play Fairs Function Fair Play English Words

Author:Arsene Wenger

“Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.”

“When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power, and, while keeping the forms, corrupt the function of those institutions for their own ends. Looking at things that way, the George W. Bush presidency has been both result and symptom of the decadence of America's constitutional mechanisms.”

Way Has Beens Ends America Form Results Function Institutions Republic Mechanism Presidency Symptoms Decadence Cabal

Author:T. D. Allman

“poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Able Universe Function Journalism Interpretation Metaphysics Science And Religion Mixtures

Book:Living by Fiction

Source: Living by Fiction

“the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.”

Men Should May Has Beens Home Mother Father Winning Function Bread Division Providing Patriarchy Monopoly Protective Submissive

Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.”

World Way Has Beens Culture Economy Function Thrive Pounds Global Economy Other Cultures Gorillas

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.”

Feels Mean Has Beens Art Stills Past Alive Modern Duty Art Is Function Communicate Liberated

Author:Antony Gormley

“The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.”

Needs Children Has Beens Problem Mother Father Born Attitude Teaching Particular Function

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.”

“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”

“God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.”

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.”

“Sometimes HR transformations have been definitions. Just because someone does an e-HR system or puts in a new talent system or changes the HR function does not mean an HR transformation has occurred. We identified four phases of HR transformation. Missing any of the four phases would be an incomplete effort.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Sometimes Would Be Effort Four Talent Missing Function Transformation Definitions Phases Incomplete New Talent

Author:Dave Ulrich

“There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Hard Kids Form Culture Powerful Fans Land Rocks Messages Music Is Function Rock N Roll Rock Music Subversive Populist Elitist Apathetic Hard Rock Soho Rock N Roll Music

Author:Tom Morello

“I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it has been interpreted to mean that Singaporeans do find that at the system level the institutions have to function with some sort of balance regardless of whether the policies are good or bad in that sense.”

Thinking Mean Has Beens Values Levels Policy Balance Findings Function Institutions Checks Accountability Voters

Author:Sylvia Lim

“At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be carried around like a sack, or two, of flour.”

Humans May Has Beens Two Dies Minutes Standards Sitting Function Theater Cease Chairs Flour Buttocks

Author:Michael J. Nelson

“But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.”

Thinking Has Beens Important Use Technology Internet Function Architecture Silly Peers Pornography Initials

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed it this way - hints at what S.H.I.E.L.D. is and how they function within this Marvel movie universe which, as you know, is deeply based in the comic books.”

Knows Way Has Beens Book Universe Function Comic Enjoyed Comic Book Hints Really Cool Cool Things

Author:Clark Gregg

“Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.”

Has Beens Ideas Mother Choices Term Ability Pleasure Principles Virtue Pride Function Sexuality Denial Concrete Passive Autonomy Embryos

Author:Angela Carter

“From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon.”

Has Beens Eye Weapons Function Originals Balloons Satellites Aircraft Sensing

Book:War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception

Source: War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception

“What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.”

Ifs Has Beens Today Streets Happenings Function Response Concerts

Author:Pete Townshend

“I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens I Can Different Whole Character Kids Pleasure Acting Function Different Characters

Author:John Travolta

“Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the synapse a number of models (Hebb 1949 . . Hayek 1952 . . Kendel 1981) have been proposed in which various cognitive activities are represented by combinations of the firing patterns of individual neurons.”

Firsts Has Beens Ideas Individual Memories Numbers Activity Models Function Bases Patterns Various Combination Description Cognitive Firing Neurons Modification Hayek

Author:Gerald Edelman

“I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that grounded me in a way that I don't think I would have been grounded otherwise. So I was able to - or forced to - function practically. But I think, by nature, I was someone who lived in my head, in my imagination.”

Thinking Way Wells Has Beens Able Imagination Function Nine Grades Grounded My Imagination Dolls Eighth Grade

Author:Susan Sarandon

“The whole function of cities has been transformed.”

Has Beens Whole Cities Function Transformed

Author:Cleve Jones

“Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.”

Has Beens Jobs Political Given White Window Machines Function Dressings Window Dressing

Author:Malcolm X

“There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.”

Persons Has Beens Stills Purpose Bird Function Bars Trapped Wire

Author:Michelle Alexander

“God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.”

Kind Has Beens Stories Forever Function Newspapers Journalism Making Up Trifling Fooling Around

Author:Tom Wolfe

“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

Should Has Beens Spiritual Form Design Function Unions Designer Architect Misunderstood Interior Design Usability Functionality Inspirational Design Design Inspiration Product Design Beautiful Design Architectural Design

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“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

“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962”

Source: A Life in Letters

“There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.”

“These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.”

Thinking Way Long Has Beens States Problem Would Be Able Function Constant Panic

Book:Worm: The First Digital World War

Source: Worm: The First Digital World War

“It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists... and I never stopped asking questions.”

Children Has Beens Said Enough Facts School Education Succeed Scientist Function Asking Intelligence Primaries Impart Asking Questions

Book:The Camel's Nose: Memoirs Of A Curious Scientist

Source: The Camel's Nose: Memoirs Of A Curious Scientist

“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”

Has Beens Self Culture Literature Acceptance Authority Function Quarrels Subversive Mutation Genetic Mutation

Author:Lionel Trilling

“The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War ii for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slave like inequalities.”

“I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you inside yourself have been able, through awareness, to transform your hate into love. Even to say that you have been able to transform it is not right, but what else to do with language? Whatever you say, something is wrong in saying it, something goes wrong in saying it. The fact is, awareness itself transforms your hate into love, not that you transform it. Your work and function is simply to remain aware. Don't let anything happen in your life without awareness.”

World Love Has Beens Facts Happens Able Remember Hate Language Awareness Opposites Function Things Happen Whatever You Say

Author:Rajneesh

“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.”

“I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.”

Long Has Beens Country States Levels Education Generations Function Medicine Patient Our Country Rising Throat Sensible Physicians Pouring Public Education Insensible

Book:Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

“But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?”

Ifs Men World Has Beens Christian Jesus Christ Laughing This World Serious Jesus Christ Function Enlightened Laughed Serious Man

Author:Rajneesh

“Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.”

Ifs Has Beens Said Action Emotion Moral Psychology Ethics Function Articles Definite Utterance Theorists

Author:Alasdair MacIntyre

“The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the Father and the Son, of revealing the truths of salvation to men on earth, and in due course, of revealing to them, all truth.”

Men Has Beens Earth Spirit Courses Father Given Records Son Holy Function Salvation Dues Ghost Ministers Revealing Holy Ghost

Author:Bruce R. McConkie

“I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Way Has Beens Play Able Wanted Function Mainstream Fringe

Author:Pat Metheny

“Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.”

Way Has Beens School Choices Difficult Ability Answers Interesting Four Succeed Function Patterns Multiple Success In Life Ability To Choose Multiple Choice

Author:David Mamet