“we can control a function of x, f(x), even if x remains vastly beyond our understanding.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit… — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll… — Ronald Speirs Copy Share Image
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive… — Dogen Copy Share Image
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that… — Tucker Viemeister Copy Share Image
This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and… — Ahmad Sa'adat Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but… — David H. Hubel Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function. — Richard Restak Copy Share Image
I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left. — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of… — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other. — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
