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“after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?”

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Book:Paul Klee: dialogue with nature

Source: Paul Klee: dialogue with nature

“Makeup should have one function only - to make you look better, to make you more attractive...Makeup is a luxury, so it should be fun...Making up is like telling yourself a secret.”

Should Looks Fun Secret Should Have Function Luxury Attractive Makeup Making Up

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.”

Knows Reality Heaven Secret Hell Function Lucifer Inferno Purgatory

Book:The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910

Source: The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910

“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”

Source: White Noise: Text and Criticism

“Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.”

Source: The Souls of Black Folk

“The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.”

Way Life Is Secret Function No Fear Secret Life Have No Fear

Author:Stokely Carmichael

“The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?”

Firsts Soul Humanity Secret Economy Function Aim My Soul This Life Transcending

Book:Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings

Source: Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings

“Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.”

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Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what—these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur in proportion to the education and rank.”

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Author:William Zinsser