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“Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.”

Art Important War Military Genius Skills Highest Function Strategy Department Art Of War

Book:Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

Source: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

“. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.”

Knows Mind Order Universe Highest Function Regard Orderly

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.”

Ifs Wells Looks Body Spiritual Father Levels Emotional Husband Highest Intellectual Function

Author:Willi Smith

“To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.”

Men Highest Capable Function

Book:The Ministry of the Word

Source: The Ministry of the Word

“It's been a real success - one of the great business successes in the United States - to break down organization, to separate people too: it's part of consumerism. If you can drive people toward individual consumption, that's the highest goal in life. And furthermore, drive them into debt so they're trapped. You don't have to worry about a democracy function because people are trapped and they're alone.”

“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”

Men Mind Religious Highest Capitalism Function Reasoning Wheels Attributes Smallest Abstraction Skyscraper Fountainhead

Author:Ayn Rand

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.”

Love Love Is Highest Unique Function Loved Ones Unique Love

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.”

“This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.”

Action Evil History Highest Function Regard Terror Deeds Worthy Posterity

Book:The Annals & The Histories

Source: The Annals & The Histories

“The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.”

Wells Mother Nations Baby Protect Highest Function Possession Well Being Precious Possessions

Book:The Century of the Child

Source: The Century of the Child

“The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.”

Understanding Nature Environment Highest Consequence Function Ecology Natural Environment

Author:Frank Herbert