“It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.” PeopleIfsShouldGovernmentPurposeMillionsThousandHundredFunctionEmploymentAppropriateFortyEmployed Author:James A. Garfield
“Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.” YearsGenerationsDyingSceneConflictHundredFunctionIslandsEmpiresDecayVitalityCivilisationRoman EmpireBarbarism Book:Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples Source: Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples
“It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.” YearsFactsFacesCertainHundredFunctionNineScholarEmbarrassingAcademyAthensPlatonic Author:Robert K. G. Temple
“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?” WayHumansWellsIdeasEnoughFactsBodyEarthProcessImagineBloodMinutesThousandWasteLosingConsciousHundredFlowTasksSkinsFunctionEnvironmentalYour BodyCellsOperationsArroganceSymptomsStewardshipRemovalKidneysStewardsArteriesBlood FlowOverseeing Author:Lynn Margulis
“I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.” WritingYearsLittlesBookWantedCultureModernFiguresChangedBearsHundredFunctionConservativeArguingMurdererExceptionalInterrogationModern Culture Author:Richard Marshall
“Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.” NeedsYearsLongRealJobsPurposeGoneDependsHundredFunctionMake SenseCrucialNails Book:Psycho: A Novel Source: Psycho: A Novel
“Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions, how it overpowers you, how in anger you become mad. Anger has happened before, it is happening now, but now add a new element to it, the element of understanding -- and then the quality will change. Then, by and by, you will see that the more you understand anger, the less it happens. And when you understand it perfectly, it disappears. Understanding is like heat. When the heat comes to a particular point -- one hundred degrees -- the water disappears.” TryingHappensUnderstandingWaterQualityHappenedParticularDegreesElementsHappeningsHundredRootsFunctionAngerMadAddDisappearHeat Author:Rajneesh
“In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.” WorldTwoCountryGovernmentStrongDecisionPayAttentionHalfCompanyPowerSupportEconomyEconomicMilitaryGrewGrew UpModelsHundredEconomicsFunctionNosesTerritoryEntitySovereigntyEmergingMilitary PowerNational SovereigntyStrong EconomyNational Economy Author:Amory Lovins