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“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.”

“These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.”

Thinking Way Long Has Beens States Problem Would Be Able Function Constant Panic

Book:Worm: The First Digital World War

Source: Worm: The First Digital World War

“Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.”

Mind States Happiness Understanding Emotional Balance Activity Function Profound Subtle Linked Authentic Happiness Emotional Balance

Book:The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

Source: The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

Humans May States Body Pain Growth Leadership Attention Criticism Function Praise Critics Flattery Human Body Unhealthy Constructive Criticism Criticism And Praise Agreeableness

Author:Winston Churchill

“When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in you. As far as the dimension of truth is concerned both are the same, because in the world of the innermost subjectivity height and depth mean the same. It is one dimension: the vertical dimension. Mind moves horizontally, no-mind exists vertically. The moment the mind ceases to function - that's what meditation is all about: cessation of the mind, total cessation of the mind - your consciousness becomes vertical; depth and height are yours.”

World Mind Mean States Moments Moving Desire Consciousness Meditation Truth Is Ambition Concerned Function Depth Cease Height Dimensions Subjectivity Vertical

Author:Rajneesh

“The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.”

Should States Government Church Liberty Function Institutions Presses Notion University Checks Communist Free Society

Author:Alan Barth

“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

“I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.”

Long Has Beens Country States Levels Education Generations Function Medicine Patient Our Country Rising Throat Sensible Physicians Pouring Public Education Insensible

Book:Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

“The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success; whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the Priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State.”

“Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to become a man again. You have to come out of this state of unconsciousness, of mechanicalness. You have to come out of this sleep. It is possible only through meditation. There is no other way, there has never been, there will never be. The only way to reduce a man to a machine is take away his consciousness force him to function unconsciously. And just the opposite is the way of meditation: give him back his consciousness.”

Men Way Giving Mean States Done Force Sleep Consciousness Meditation Machines Opposites Function Unconsciousness Undoing

Author:Rajneesh

“To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.”

Thinking Inspirational Mean Different States Feelings Remember Consciousness Function Oneself States Of Consciousness

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.”

Source: The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)

“As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each must in the exercise of its functions be guided by the text of the Constitution according to its own interpretation of it.”

States United United States Support Exercise Function Constitution Bounds Department Executives Interpretation Judicial

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply every human defect; that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good.”

“[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.”

Men Ideas States Government School Influence Theory Function Relation Historical Obvious Agreement Contracts Thinker

Author:Charles Edward Merriam

“Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.”

Men States Individual Social Existence Function Aim Soldier Producers Priests Divided Scholar Joints Statesmen Human Existence

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

“A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine and destroy popular movements whenever possible.”

World War States Government United United States Security Policy Movement Huge Function War Of The Worlds World War Ii Foreign Policy World War I National Security

Author:Michael Parenti

“Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over to the voluntary, consensual forces of market society.”

Should States Force Function Doctrine Anarchy Protective Anarchism

Author:Roderick T. Long

“The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.”

States Nations Economic Europe Function Sovereignty European Union Euro Fusion Fuse

Author:Jean Monnet

“Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.”

Thinking Way Firsts States Happens Action Order Views Attention Moral Psychology Theory Standards Ethics Function Complexes Agents Variety Salt Realism Worth It

Book:Moral Realism: A Defence

Source: Moral Realism: A Defence

“In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.”

States Government Church Religious Atheism Duty Citizens Degrees Judgment Organization Function Congress Conviction Presidential Smallest Scruples

Author:James A. Garfield

“The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'”

People Firsts States School Nations Goal Enemy Citizens Function Historical Primaries Good People Educate Public School Indoctrination Good Citizen

Book:The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home

Source: The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home

“The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.”

Men Doe States Seems Moving Force Wish Car Function Historical Wheels

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.”

Mind States Reason Political Spirit Three Individual Justice Virtue Wise Achieve Elements Function Harmony Brave Defined Fulfillment Appetite Unjust Subordination

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both.”

Men Way Should Firsts Children Important States Whole Political Values Individual Interest Differences Principles Bears Men And Women Function Begets Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Plato

“Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature of man and animals, and their relations to external objects; whoever would establish, on the intellectual and moral functions, a solid doctrine of mental diseases, of the general and governing influence of the brain in the states of health and disease, should know, that it is indispensable, that the study of the organization of the brain should march side by side with that of its functions.”

“For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.”

States Order Turns Individual Taken Function Individuality Dependence

Book:The Undiscovered Self

Source: The Undiscovered Self

“When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens.”

Way States Hands Our Lives Effects Judging Directors Understood Tradition Function Sacred Prison Lenses Pointers

Author:Marcus Borg

“[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.”

Humans Made States Law Lying Left Rooms Function Islamic Legislation Observance Vests Islamic State

Author:Abul A'la Maududi