Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function. — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the… — Ron Silliman Copy Share Image
He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them. — Jamie Muir 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
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence. — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one… — Homer Smith Copy Share Image
It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity -… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the… — William James 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
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style. — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four… — Len Cariou Copy Share Image
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
We all know the future is mobile, right? And the iPhone and iPad are Perfect Expressions of Beauty, Ideal Combinations of Form… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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