“after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.” TwoWarSometimesStatesPoliticalAnswersSecretGenerationsHappenedCostResourcesFunctionCongressEmpoweringPresidencyEquationsDeliberateDroppingTotal WarAutonomousCost Of War Author:Rachel Maddow
“Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?” HeartArtistSpaceSecretBrainCreationEvolutionFunctionChosenAll TimeRegionsNurtureTime And SpacePenetrateActivatePrimevalSecret Places Book:Paul Klee: dialogue with nature Source: Paul Klee: dialogue with nature
“Makeup should have one function only - to make you look better, to make you more attractive...Makeup is a luxury, so it should be fun...Making up is like telling yourself a secret.” ShouldLooksFunSecretShould HaveFunctionLuxuryAttractiveMakeupMaking Up Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.” WritingMeanMatterSecretCuttingMinesProductsLateCriticismFunctionToo Late Author:John Steinbeck