It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or… — Dharma Singh Khalsa Copy Share Image
Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
How can you glorify God in your body, when it doesn't function right?…What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live… — Frederick K. C. Price Copy Share Image
The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,'… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression?… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction,… — Adrian Wilson Copy Share Image
after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of… — Rachel Maddow 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
What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now… — Kato Copy Share Image
We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions -… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function… — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends.… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function… — Matt Cartwright Copy Share Image
I'm OK with procedural code, and the web is a top-down type of problem. It makes sense to me that you have… — Rasmus Lerdorf Copy Share Image
That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
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