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“The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.”

Way May Found Given Force Water Movement Objects Listening Limits Function Sake Boundaries Fixed Helpful Listeners Fulfilling Definite Centre Confined Talkers Canals Restraining Erratic

Author:Charles Dickens

“The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.”

Might Effects Limits Function Constitution Mark England Boundaries Primaries Trails Jury Legislature

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience you get, how much you're willing to expand your limits, how willing you are to develop your own style. If you're willing to put 10,000 hours, something amazing is going to happen.”

Ifs Happens Process Hours Simple Style Fields Willing Masters Limits Argument Function

Author:Robert Greene

“Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability.”

Problem Body Technology Limits Function Vulnerability Fragility Amplify

Book:In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

“The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.”

Men Way Happens Realizing Simple Creative Limits Survival Function Strive Sufficient Engaged Equilibrium Endeavour Creative Work

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.”

Christian Interest Limits Function Appreciation Ignorant Fundamentalism

Author:Moby

“Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!”

Should Care Individual Decision Changed Limits Ethics Doctors Function Patient Medical Traditional Primaries Health Care Decision Making Regulation

Author:Donald Berwick

“By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.”

Mean Hands Social Taken Special Limits Function Crisis Productions Credit Driving Capitalist Vehicle Banking Distribution Banking System

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

“I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.”

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies, and to fulfil other physical functions of which perhaps we have as yet no conception, but also to constitute the material organism of beings exercising functions of life and mind as high or higher than ours are at present is a question far transcending the limits of physical speculation.”

Mind Matter Body Materials Higher Exercise Limits Function Mediums Conception Interaction Organisms Speculation Transcending Expanse Homogeneous

Book:Scientific Papers

Source: Scientific Papers

“Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.”

Giving Government Political Liberty Principles Subjects Citizens Limits Authority Function Constitution Instruments Broads

Book:The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-August 1867

Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-August 1867

“When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.”

States Sky Limits Empty Function Financing Contractor Sky Is The Limit

Book:The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

“After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.”