We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers… — Neil Gaiman 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
Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata… — Charles Correa Copy Share Image
Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your… — Luc Montagnier Copy Share Image
Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience — William James Copy Share Image
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself… — Alan Watts 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
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four… — Len Cariou Copy Share Image
When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
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