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“It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.”

Politics Function Lips Valuable Performing Requirements Great Day Have A Great Day Stiff Upper Lip

Author:Dan Quayle

“Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.”

People Important Bits Function Performing Horizon

Author:Wole Soyinka

“...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.”

Moving Function Noble Performing

Book:On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.”

Ifs Thinking Past Mistake Conditions Function Denial Performing Empires Incapable Handicaps

Author:Niall Ferguson

“The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.”

Humans Wells Important Eye Used Term Moral Special Consequence Tasks Direct Function Claims Harder Critical Performing Remove Devices Expertise Beam

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.”

“People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense.”

People Wall Function Plant Appearance Defense Performing Naive Living Things Reproduction Respiration Actually Living

Book:Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

“Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties.”

Duty Keys Exercise Calling Office Authority Function Performing Priesthood Priesthood Keys

Author:Dallin H. Oaks