“The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.” StatesGovernmentGivenLevelsDemocracyRightsCollegeUnderstoodFunctionElectionBillsProtectionSeparationIncomeLocalsLimitationEvolveFoundersSenatorsRoutesTaxationIncome TaxLegislatorsBill Of RightsPlunderSeparation Of PowersElectoral CollegeCentral Government Author:Thomas DiLorenzo
“The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community... Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it... It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store... that’s the only way art can function naturally.” PeopleWayWantMindArtHouseCommunityEssentialsClothesUnderstoodArt IsSkinsFunctionWestStoresSupposed To BeScholarGroceriesGrocery Stores Author:Amiri Baraka
“In Matthew 16:19, Jesus said that He would give us the keys to the Kingdom. Faith is the major key that opens every door in the Kingdom. It is a master key. Therefore it is imperative that we understand the ways of faith. Because these keys are the ways of God the natural man cannot receive them. They are spiritually understood. They are foolishness to the natural man. When a gift of the Spirit operates. Then we are able to impart that gift to others and teach them how to function in it also.” MenWayGivingSaidAbleSpiritJesusNaturalTeachDoorsMastersKeysMajorsUnderstoodFunctionKingdomsFoolishnessImperativesImpartMatthewGifts Of The SpiritKeys To The Kingdom Author:Phil Pringle
“When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.” WritingMindFirstsHeartBookMatterHardUseEyeOpportunityMy OwnAnimalSeeingMovementOfficeFindingsUnderstoodFunctionDifficultyDissection Author:William Harvey
“Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.” FactsMightPhotographyUnderstoodFunctionBe GoodUncertaintyInventor Author:John Szarkowski
“The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.” PeopleMenNeedsDoneWinningFeltChurchViewsUnderstoodDevilFunctionEntertainmentMissionsScriptureDoctrineProvidingBiblicalAmusement Author:Charles Spurgeon
“[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.” JokesUnderstoodFunctionToms Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down.” RealityLawJudgingProtectUnderstoodFunctionPolicePlentyJail Author:Charles Bukowski
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.” KnowsMindImportantBodySpiritStrongSportsSoundCreativeKeysHealthyActivitySkillsIntellectualUnderstoodToughCapacityFunctionBasesComplexesGreekSubtleHockeyHardyHealthy BodyPhysical FitnessSoundness Author:John F. Kennedy
“This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.” KnowsWantLittlesScienceEasyStepsTeamProjectsUnderstoodDiscoveryFunctionDeedsCellsSugarMetabolism Author:Luis Federico Leloir
“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.” WayStatesHandsOur LivesEffectsJudgingDirectorsUnderstoodTraditionFunctionSacredPrisonLensesPointers Author:Marcus Borg