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“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

“During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.”

“Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.”

Long Used Energy Space Cost Function Distance Heavy Conversion Sufficient Load Idle Indispensable Time And Space Margins Transport Circuits Batteries Surplus Storage Heavy Loads

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.”

Way Believe Mean Doe Film Used Purpose Painting Function Soundtracks

Author:Peter Doig

“Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.”

Needs Humans May Has Beens Art Used Creation Function Notion Humble Practicals Esteem Works Of Art Aesthetic Nobility Great Work Discernment Revision

Book:The Nature of Rationality

Source: The Nature of Rationality

“The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net.”

Way Firsts Doe Problem Used Speak Given Term Behavior Concerned Connections Function Relation Structure Series Tendencies Defined Regions Probability Systematic Circuits Neurons Manifold

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.”

Used Nations Citizens Protect Function Police Great Nations

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f - - thing. First, I couldn't function without it. Then I couldn't do anything with or without it. Then I thought, "This is the end of the line for my fun days."”

Firsts Ends Used Fun Lines Function Smoke Cigarette Dope Smack Cigarette Smoke Fun Day

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons.”

Source: To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

“With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began to be used to refer to people. ... In the industrial age, a new degree of uniformity was expected of people. The rhythms and pacing of life could no longer be organic. People became expected to function like things.”

People Age Used Degrees Normal Function Expected Rhythm Uniformity Defective Pacing

Author:Anne Finger

“If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.”

Ifs Mind Doe Used Brain Judging Hatred Function

Author:Dalai Lama

“My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.”

Different Play Kids Used Mother Found Father House Church Records Saws Function Jazz Piano Choir Buzz Mouthpiece Church Choir Jazz Records

Author:Johnny Griffin

“Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature'. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice.”

Use Used Literature Sex Voice Scene Function Males Sexuality Labels Narrative Establishment Daring Surrealism Hardcore Bengali Chronology Narrative Voice

Author:Deborah Smith

“It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.”

People Men Firsts Facts Earth Used White Written Feet Mankind Behavior Consequence Concern Function Environmental Extremes Contact Boat Indian White Man Elders First Contact

Author:Leonard Peltier

“Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.”

World Able Used Company Function Used To Be Boss

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor."”

Used Cities Dog Grew Grew Up Function Ass Construction New Yorkers Kansas Administrative Kansas City

Author:Kevin Sessums

“When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.”

Wanted Film Used Function Catalyst

Author:Sergio Leone

“The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.”

Stills Seems Used Lost Function Originals Sacred Used To Be Email Reminders Texting Postcards Memento

Author:Elaine Equi

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

Way Two Used Artist Moral Function Critics Tales Opposing Never Trust

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple does not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.”

Firsts Doe Facts Used Purpose Energy Marriage Creative Couple Argument Function Arguing Zone Courageous Leap Retreat Breakthrough Familiarity Therapists

Author:Gay Hendricks

“When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.”

Firsts Doe Used Night Three Hours Sleep Mom Months Six Function Occasions Rough Deprived Three Months Back To Work Suffocating You Re Pretty No Sleep Sleep Deprived

Author:Holly Marie Combs

“I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)”

Ifs Feels Years Humans Body Would Be Used Pleasure Imagine Heard Example Unique Female Function Males Justify Possessed Organs Accurate Human Body

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.”

Men May Important Use Would Be Used Freedom Millions Possibility Particular Exercise Function Importance Majority Grants One Man Beneficial Being Free

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.”

Ifs Way Writing Kids Age Used Three Minutes Fronts Ten Computer Function More Time

Author:Jodi Picoult

“All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”

Ifs Wells Body Age Used Growth Healthy Disease Labor Function Moderation Accustomed Liable Defective Parts Of The Body

Author:Hippocrates

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