Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty… — Bill Berry 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
The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering… — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal… — Peter London Copy Share Image
The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say… — Roberto Assagioli Copy Share Image
Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function,… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse.… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies,… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there… — Huineng Copy Share Image
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in… — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
While I think men in general should not fuss over how they look, I do feel as though they should make more… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The table that cannot stand upright, is an insult to the carpenter who makes it. God made us perfectly; so when we… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I'm pretty fit, naturally. I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well and I think it has an effect… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
At the same time, you have got these traditional councils. And the challenge is how to make sure that they function together… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
The impresario functions as a bridge and a translator. He or she is a bridge between the creative point of view -… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body.… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image