[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The sky is the limit as long as you keep the rooms practical, and I have become better at that since I… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by… — Aditi Shankardass Copy Share Image
It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The Neurosciences do not exist exclusively to understand man's nature. They also serve a social function, such as in the treatment of… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes. Dreams… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only… — Mooji Copy Share Image
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function. — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield Copy Share Image
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it… — Adrienne Rich 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