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“Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.”

Thinking Way States Form Certain Organization Function Interpretation Way Of Thinking Militarism Armament

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce.”

Thinking Wells Country Government America Sports Picks Function Foundation Stable Workforce

Author:Ken Salazar

“I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.”

Thinking Stills Important Literature Differences Internet Lonely Function Disappear Website Slate Salons

Author:David Talbot

“What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good organizations that perform good functions for people just based on the fact one has a religious association and one doesn't.”

People Thinking Trying Said Facts Government Religious Organization Function Association Federal Government Good Fun Good Organization

Author:Ken Buck

“Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.”

Thinking May Whole Brain Fine Shapes Function Priorities Affected Motor Ordeals Close To Death

Author:Bill Berry

“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Stills I Can Feelings Pain Mother Can Do Sleep Forget Levels Brain Empowerment Function Incredibles Scary Vocabulary Being A Mother Grumpy

Author:Anna Friel

“When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.”

Thinking Looks Persons Grows Memories Taken Alive Photography Function Photograph Relate Life Experience Invitations

Author:Jason Fulford

“We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.”

Thinking Function Intellect Participating

Book:The William James Reader

Source: The William James Reader

“Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.”

Thinking Men Long Reason Force Acting Struggle Function Contrary Preserves Features Appropriate Description Extinction Adverse

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.”

Thinking Has Beens Impossible Function Observation Logical Logical Thinking

Book:Cosmic Memory

Source: Cosmic Memory

“What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.”

Thinking Knows Values Theory Adults Function Population Publishing Publishers

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.”

Thinking Want Writing Mean Earth Used Knowing Function Who You Are Supposed To Be Fulfilling Writers And Writing Knowing Who You Are

Author:Natalie

“I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Book Different Jobs Mines Function Different Ways Provoking Showers

Author:Doris Lessing

“We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free to earn our own profits and make our own fortunes ... Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high.”

Thinking Science Function Entrepreneur Fortune Profit Rejects Free Thought

Author:Ayn Rand

“Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.”

Ifs Thinking Shows Three Function Independent Sufficient Colour Thrive Variables

Book:The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862

“I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real.”

Ifs Thinking Real Streets Internet Function Inferiors Unreliable

Author:William Gibson

“Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.”

Thinking Humans Art Soul Conditions Poet Scientist Function Awe Tribes Good Art Astonishment Good Science

Author:Derek Walcott

“By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.”

Thinking Play Couple Areas Function Rings Curious Playwright Brass Mischance

Author:Edward Albee

“Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function thus it depends on those who control these requirements.”

Ifs Thinking Subjects Depends Speech Performances Function Latter Fulfilling Requirements

Book:One Dimensional Man

Source: One Dimensional Man

“If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Doe School Form Order Universe Consciousness Function Fundamentals Hopefully Universality

Author:Vanna Bonta

“Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.”

Ifs Thinking Should Humans Human Beings Morality Function Objectives Genes Deceived Binding Disinterested

Author:E. O. Wilson

“sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Activity Function Cease Sooner Or Later

Book:The Greek Way

Source: The Greek Way

“I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.”

Thinking Should Enough Beautiful Space Objects Civilization Function Sculpture

Author:Barbara Chase-Riboud

“I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.”

Thinking Art Important Reality Interest Challenges Powerful Groups Function Accepted Interest Groups

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.”

People Thinking Writing Believe Wells Stories Walks Emotion Safe Survival Function Nightmare Make Believe Safe Places

Author:Stephen King

“The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Humans Art Poetry Certain Difficult Moral Awareness Art Is Function Primaries Efficient Deceiving

Author:W. H. Auden

“I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.”

People Thinking Way Function Best Way Curious Code

Author:Noah Baumbach

“I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.”

Thinking Men Way Feels Looks Purpose Certain Opportunity Given Difficult Poor Break Built Function Sorry Ties Sufficient Tied Linear Tied Up Not Sorry

Author:Maya Tiwari

“Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.”

Thinking Language Saws Objects Tools Function Boxes Pot Diverse Nails Screws Hammers Glue Screwdrivers Pliers Tool Boxes

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.”

Thinking Winning Process Answers Results Focus Function Competition Execution

Author:Lanny Bassham

“Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.”

Thinking Feelings Four Function Intuition Psychological Sensing

Author:Carl Jung

“Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts about the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.”

Thinking Two Purpose Communication Activity Tools Function Safety Sake Marketing Foolish Distraction Mobile Optional Safety Net

Author:Andrew Skurka

“I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.”

Thinking Believe Stories Use Sky Function Having Fun Legends Diamond Sane Urban Urban Legends

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don't know how to function right in those relationships.”

People Thinking Knows Believe Problem Past I Believe Sex Hurt Know How Gay Opposites Function Been Hurt

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I don't think rock music has any positive function.”

Thinking Rocks Function Rock Music

Author:Charlton Heston

“Directing is monumentally complicated and it's a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I'm not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, 'yeah, it's good!' Some day.”

Thinking Would Be Pay Function Yeah Complicated

Author:Ben Affleck

“All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they'll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won't be the same as what I grew up with.”

Thinking Way Looks Purpose Media Grew Grew Up Function One Way Relevance Versatile New Media

Author:Bill Watterson

“I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.”

Thinking Should Together Christ Differences Function Claims Various Followers Day To Day Many Friends Being Together

Author:Billy Graham

“I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.”

People Thinking Kind Art Important Stuff Function

Author:Patti Smith

“In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.”

Thinking Knows Years Humans Ideas Reason Brain Demand Function Suspects Principal Doing You Leading Me Rationalize Lizards Human Reason

Author:Dave Hickey

“It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.”

Thinking Self Environment Mom Mets Function My Mom Insane Grandmother Sane My Grandmother

Author:Jenny Lawson

“The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Ability Forget Consciousness Effects Self Help Function Ill Producers

Book:You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

Source: You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

“I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really engage with the world around me? These are questions that artists and scientists both ask.”

Thinking World Art Artist Asks Happenings Scientist Function Curiosity Art And Science

Author:Amy Hardie

“I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past.”

Ifs Thinking Past Function Impact Best Things Things To Do Truthful

Author:David Duchovny

“I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.”

People Thinking Bigs Artist Actors Circumstances Function Movie Big Movie

Author:Ang Lee

“I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.”

Thinking Years Stills Form Steps Cases Car Tears Paper Losing Function Online Maps Suspects Atlas Up To Date Gps

Author:Charles Stross

“I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so to speak. And if you had had the experience of seeing at one time in your life, then you would know what it was like and be able to function. I've said this before, I think I could really photograph blind if I had to.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Feels Said Stills Able Speak Seeing One Thing Function Blind Photograph One Time

Author:William Eggleston

“I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things.”

People Ifs Thinking World Feels Real Bigs Function Real World Bodily Functions

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.”

Thinking Should Mind Ideas Evil Rooms Five Becoming Quiet Eating Function Drinking Various Setting Settings Desirable Eating And Drinking Quiet Room

Author:Dogen

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