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“I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.”

States Greater Exercise Office Authority Standards Function Regard London Guidance Ethical Secretary Sections Ethical Standards

Author:Ken Livingstone

“The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.”

Mind Differences Mankind Normal Intellectual Function Importance Regard Majority Optimistic Pessimistic

Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

“Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.”

Littles Political Force Doubt Products Activity Majors Labor Function Regard Unions Significant Labor Union

Book:THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

“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.”

May Littles Important Individual Justice Views Speech Elements Messages Function Constitution Regard Sanctions Cognitive Often Is

Author:John Marshall Harlan II

“Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.”

Men Care Wealth Animal Planets Calling Abuse Function Regard Plant Grass Routine Vegetables Concrete Carbon Disrespect Cattle Never Ending Annuals Acres Swagger No Respect Enamored

Author:Joel Salatin

“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

“. . . 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 regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.”

Doe Form Taste Mouths Function Regard Senses Visuals Texture Bud Flavour Taste Buds

Author:Adamo Macri

“I don't know why you should isolate women in this regard. If you have a traditional leader who says 'I am the sole exclusive ruler, I am the autocrat', it will affect everybody in the area, whether they are men or women. The challenge that South Africa faces, and it is not a new challenge, a whole range of African countries have faced this challenge, is that where you have institutional traditional leadership, which in our country is protected by the Constitution, how does that institution function side by side with a democratic system?”

“I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.”

Ifs Knows World Feels War Wealth Know How Ambition Function Regard Greed Corruption Budgets Dimensions Bombing

Author:Douglas Coupland

“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

“My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.”

“The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.”

People Persons States Government Liberty Function Regard Minimum Maximum Restriction

Author:Immanuel Kant

“On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.”

Men May Hands Seems Pain Suffering Strong Can Do Pleasure He Man Equal Function Regard Attraction Pregnancy Submit Doomed Erotic Hesitation Dose Menstruation

Author:Princess Marie Bonaparte