Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for… — Morris West Copy Share Image
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself. — Lindsay Wagner Copy Share Image
I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex! — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings… — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.” — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
