In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours. — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor. — James Madison Copy Share Image
As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so… — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I… — Melanie Griffith Copy Share Image
The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think what we need is better understanding of how to do risk analysis of a CDO, but that they still can… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But… — John Green Copy Share Image
...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
. . . the membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty. — Julianne Malveaux 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
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw. — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and… — Kevin R. Stone Copy Share Image
The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function. — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
