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“Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.”

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.”

Humans Individual Easy Human Beings Function

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.”

Giving Individual Social Members Function Social Status Social Power

Book:The Future of Industrial Man

Source: The Future of Industrial Man

“Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.”

Humanity Individual Taken Capitalism Function Collectives Emancipation

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.”

Ends Government School Political Individual Church Direct Organization Function Institutions Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.”

People Firsts Might Individual Democracy Essence Function Absolutes Peculiar

Author:Edwin Land

“The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Fuehrer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Fuehrer. If they gave the Fuehrer their confidence then it was their concern to exercise the other functions. Thus, not the individual persons were to be selected according to the will of the people, but solely the leadership itself.”

People Ifs Persons Individual Exercise Authority Concern Function Acknowledge Agreement Selected Goering

Author:Hermann Goring

“We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.”

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Author:John Marshall Harlan II

“By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.”

Stills Whole Individual Fun Sex Practice Greater Integrity Diversity Function Genes Engineering Adaptation Maintaining Separating

Author:Seth Lloyd

“For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests.”

School Political Order Individual Social Interest Function Conservative Disguise Socialist Axioms

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

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

“Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.”

Source: Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18

“It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.”

Matter Government Purpose Individual Left Sides Religious Prayer Taken Atheism Citizens Exercise Conscience Function Mere Positive Atheism Instance Sole Secular Acknowledgment

Author:Barbara Brandriff Crabb

“Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs.”

Helping Individual Belief Strong Community Share Atheism Elements Function Positive Atheism Binding Primacy

Author:Frans de Waal

“[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.”

“Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.”

Knows Men Giving Values Individual Leadership Leader Know How Groups He Man Draws Function Regard Management Initiative Recognizing Defining

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge.”

People Humans Important Hands Individual Work Responsibility Careers Skills Connections Function Possession Reputation Firm Networking Organizational

Book:Men and Women of the Corporation

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation

“The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.”

Individual Evolution Elements Function Structure Tendencies Bondage

Book:Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality

Source: Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality

“Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.”

Source: Mother Earth Bulletin

“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.”

“• As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will continue to increase at a dizzying rate. This means that a content-based curriculum, with a set body of information to be imparted to students, is entirely inappropriate as a means of preparing children for their adult roles.”

World Mean Children Body Able Individual Roles Information Students Adults Function Increase Rate Preparing Curriculum Inappropriate Flux

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.”

“I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.”

Ideas School Form Individual Education Function Excellence Urges Principal Nurturing Yeast

Author:Jerome Bruner

“We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is very important but... not as important as we believe. Most of the important things that we do don't depend on memory. To hear, to see, to touch, to feel happiness and pain; these are functions which are independent of memory; it is an a priori thing. Thus, for me, what memory does is to modify that a priori thing, and this it does in a very profound way.”

Way Feels Believe Doe Important Pain Certain Individual Memories Roles Depends Evolution Function Independent Important Things Profound Nervous Nervous System

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function.”

Individual Attention Influence Morality Function Pay Attention Features Participants

Author:George Soros

“A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy.”

Should Believe Country Government Individual Enemy Economy Ought Needed Protect Function Violent Phrases Description Gangsters Market Economy

Book:Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.”

Individual Talent Advantage Function Historical Environmental Bounds Factors Steady Accumulation Individual Talent

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Traditional sales and marketing involves increasing market shares, which means selling as much of your product as you can to as many customers as possible. One-to-one marketing involves driving for a share of customer, which means ensuring that each individual customer who buys your product buys more product, buys only your brand, and is happy using your product instead of another to solve his problem. The true, current value of any one customer is a function of the customer's future purchases, across all the product lines, brands, and services offered by you.”

Mean Problem Values Individual Lines Share Products Function Marketing Currents Solve Customers Driving Selling Traditional Brands

Author:Seth Godin

“Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!”

Should Care Individual Decision Changed Limits Ethics Doctors Function Patient Medical Traditional Primaries Health Care Decision Making Regulation

Author:Donald Berwick

“We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We do these things to set loose again the energy and the ingenuity of the American people. We do these things to reinvigorate those social and economic institutions which serve as a buffer and a bridge between the individual and the state - and which remain the real source of our progress as a people.”

People Doe Real States Hands Government Individual Energy Social Progress Economic Source Function Institutions Harm Bridges Remove Ingenuity

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.”

Ifs Knows Government Certain Individual Force Function Fraud

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“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

“The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.”

“From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating language, is dependent on a group of cells inside of my brain functioning in a healthy, happy way. I realized in order to get well I had to make the cells that performed those functions well again. It gave me an entirely different way to look at myself as an individual and at all of us as people.”

“It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.”

Ifs Thinking Individual Function Dancing Narcissism Tricky Free Thinking Tango Succumbing

Author:Tom Robbins

“While the president is to nominate that individual [to Supreme Court], we in the Senate must provide our advice and consent. This function is not well-defined. The Constitution does not set down a road map. It does not require hearings. In fact, it does not even require questioning on your understanding of the Constitution nor the role of the Supreme Court.”

Wells Doe Facts Individual Understanding President Roles Advice Function Constitution Court Hearing Supreme Defined Maps Senate Questioning Consent Supreme Court Road Maps

Author:Mike DeWine

“The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.”

School Individual Social Environment Influence Function Various Diverse Disposition Social Environment Coordinating

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Even though a definite article is supposed to bring something into focus, Donald Trump uses it in a very general way. It's seen by many observers as a kind of racial distancing. Often using that article seems unnecessary. [But] it is serving some function, which is to represent a group collectively rather than as individuals.”

Way Kind Use Seems Individual Focus Groups Trump Function Serving Articles Unnecessary Definite Observers

Author:Ben Zimmer

“After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.”

World Way Believe Different Sometimes Reality Individual Differences Brain Function Population Different Ways Translate Brain Function Experiencing The World

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“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.”

“Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.”

Way Humans Problem Spirit Turns Individual Human Beings Cases Worst Design Members Function Setting Settings One Way Software Behaviour Packs Software Design

Author:Jaron Lanier

“The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.”

States Individual Groups Essence Function Absolutes Aim Doctrine Conception Relative Fascism Fascists Keystones

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).”

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.”

Body Literature Individual Interest United Common Groups Function Army Orchestra Distinguished Common Interests

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”

Art Artist Culture Individual Judgment Perception Function Environmental Tyranny Primaries Permit Autonomy Individual Autonomy

Author:Beverly Sills

“Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.”

People Real Individual Social Numbers Economy Rights Exercise Speech Benefits Function Property Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Property Rights

Author:Thomas Sowell

“We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.”

World Writing Ideas Matter Individual Grows Simple Growing Up Function Merit Outliers

Book:Outliers: The Story of Success

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute”

Choices Individual Identity Discovery Function Attributes

Author:Amartya Sen

“The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a higher, nobler one in closer conformity with the supposed ideal. Then from the point of subjectification issues a subject of enunciation, as a function of a mental reality determined by that point. Then from the subject of enunciation issues a subject of the statement, in other words, a subject bound to statements in conformity with a dominant reality”

Reality Moving Form Individual Issues Subjects Higher Ideals Function Bounds Various Determined Statements Conformity Dominant Always Moving

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.”

Philosophy Reality Individual Information Fields Function Physics Quantum Quantum Physics Exchanging

Author:Timothy Leary

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