It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some… — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen… — Emmitt Smith Copy Share Image
A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The environment in Canada is much more conducive to doing critical work, though Canada has its own set of problems, but nothing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have… — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively… — Aaron Schock 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
Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I recently declined to support a Conservative function because I'm so incensed about these wind turbines. Like all so-called climate-change doubters, I… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
