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“Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?”

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Author:Louis O. Kelso

“The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.”

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Author:Louis O. Kelso

“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.”

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Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.”

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Book:The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

Source: The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

“If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.”

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Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

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Book:De Officiis: (English Edition)

Source: De Officiis: (English Edition)

“Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something is unplugged, but you are still fully here. Senses are functioning normally. This was never the trouble. The mind rises up as resistances and doubts but they are mere thoughts. Mind in its psychological aspect can come full power, but you are not to be a traffic policeman inside your own head.”

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Author:Mooji

“Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.”

Should Wisdom Conscience Function

Book:Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

“Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.”

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Author:Bernard DeVoto