My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever… — Natalie Copy Share Image
Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The… — Marvin Dunnette Copy Share Image
The social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy, but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The lesson I have learnt is that when a family and a business function, they function together. You have to have a… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to… — David Galula Copy Share Image
The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of… — William James Copy Share Image
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time.… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that… — Ian Curtis Copy Share Image
People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
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