“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.” MenShouldMayHas BeensHomeMotherFatherWinningFunctionBreadDivisionProvidingPatriarchyMonopolyProtectiveSubmissive Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work
“The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.” PeopleMenNeedsDoneWinningFeltChurchViewsUnderstoodDevilFunctionEntertainmentMissionsScriptureDoctrineProvidingBiblicalAmusement Author:Charles Spurgeon
“There are some very difficult things to understand that globalization is providing, that people really think are just here but really are a function of some of that. There are some very difficult arguments.” PeopleThinkingDifficultArgumentFunctionProvidingGlobalizationDifficult Things Author:Ken Moelis
“A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.” MayMeanValuesThreeTermWealthPayGoldAccountsFunctionFinancialStoresGoodsAssetsProvidingCurrencyUnitsPaymentGroceriesGoods And Services Author:Nouriel Roubini
“One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich and poor could live happily side by side. The public library was a great leveler, supplying a literature by which the ordinary man could experience some of the pleasures of the rich, and providing a common ground where employer and employee could meet on equal terms.” MenMeanLiteratureSidesTermDifferencesPleasurePoorCommonDemocracyRichSawsEqualOrdinaryFunctionLibraryEdgesEmployeeProvidingEmployersLibrarianRich And PoorBluntCommon GroundOrdinary ManPublic Library Author:Lewis Henry Steiner
“The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement” ShouldArtistModelsFunctionStartingPainterExcitementProvidingStarting Point Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre