The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well,… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function… — Plato Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning… — Paul Dudley White Copy Share Image
The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours,… — Sidney Hillman 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
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
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a… — Cecil Balmond Copy Share Image
The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while… — Barbara Smoker 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
Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. — David Hare Copy Share Image
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your… — Ian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers. — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
The function of a friend is not to have a function.A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world… — Cecil Avila Copy Share Image
Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much… — Anil Kapoor Copy Share Image
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
