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
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
“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
Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. — Michael Moore 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
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
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
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 function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or… — Dharma Singh Khalsa Copy Share Image
Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it… — Blaise Pascal 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
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 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
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
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness… — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is… — Tony Hendra Copy Share Image
“Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without… — Jim George Copy Share Image
The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress. — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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