“It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.” WellsPersonsTurnsUnderstandingFunctionUniversityBalancedPlace In Life Author:Vincent Massey
“Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.” MadeLightTurnsLosesJourneyAdventureDramaFunctionSpreadMissionsCoreWanderRaysVoidBubblesBentPenetrateSoapBrightnessBlacknessSparkleBlockedSoap Bubbles Book:Fun in a Chinese Laundry Source: Fun in a Chinese Laundry
“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.” FeelsHumansStatesPainTurnsSexAnimalFunctionPlantIntenseTransitionKillersUsersOrganismsTimelessDelayDiscomfortJunkWithdrawalOpiumStationaryPainlessLibidoSex Drive Author:William S. Burroughs
“Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the incompetent, society soon finds out, ceases to employ, forces to try something easier, and eventually turns to use.” TryingKindUseTurnsCoursesForceNaturalCasesCitizensEasierSucceedFunctionAverageCeaseProportionEfficiencyCompetentIncompetent Book:Essays--scientific, political and speculative Source: Essays--scientific, political and speculative
“Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.” PhilosophyProblemTurnsForceUnderstandingCommonSourceUltimateFunctionPreservesNeverthelessElementalsPseudo Author:Martin Heidegger
“The best function of the school in my head, as it turns out, is to remind me where not to dwell. I did my time in and around school, and learned things painstakingly and grudgingly that my children later learned while laughing and playing and singing.” ChildrenSchoolTurnsLaughingSingingFunctionMy ChildrenMy Time Author:Sandra Dodd
“The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.” ShouldWellsTurnsWorkKnownMonthsOfficeSixLettersShould HaveFunctionTrackChiefsSix MonthsTurn-onShould Have KnownMemos Author:Jilly Cooper