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“A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not the witch doctor of a tribe who knows everything. He is a civil servant. I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.”

People Thinking Knows Way President Levels Powerful Kings Ideals Doctors Function Majority Humble Servant Officials Witch Tribes Poorest High Level Civil Servants Witch Doctors

Author:Jose Mujica

“During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions, is an odd concept. In my youth I was running from my family to try to find out who I was-their influence distracted me. Now I see what a powerful hold they have, no matter what.”

Thinking Trying Persons Ideas Matter Running Purpose Lost Powerful Influence Youth Concepts My Family Function No Matter What Odd Imperfect Distracted Dysfunction

Author:Susan Minot

“The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.”

People Thinking Writing Humans Ideas Shows Difficult Human Beings Conditions Becoming Involved Function Redemption Charm Human Condition Becoming Better

Author:George Dzundza

“It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.”

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Author:James Dean

“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.”

“I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted”

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Author:Pat Metheny

“Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.”

“Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.”

Thinking Should Body Causes Sleep Brain Duty Habit Evidence Function Radio Wide Awake Phenomenon Time Of Day Wide Awake

Author:Evan Davis

“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

“I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .”

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Author:Corliss Lamont

“I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.”

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Book:The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

“The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think”

Thinking Feels Firsts Function Telling The Truth Poetry Is

Author:June Jordan