Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
But the reality is that the police serve a certain function, to maintain a certain status quo, and that's one of the… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures… — Laura Chinchilla Copy Share Image
They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the… — Peter Sarsgaard 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 Islam, there is no priesthood and each person stands before God, like in the daily prayers, without an intermediary. That's in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function. — Robin Day Copy Share Image
[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality.… — George Soros Copy Share Image
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence… — Allan Sandage Copy Share Image
That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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