Function Quotes

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The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. — James Madison
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work… — Kurt Vonnegut
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown… — Mark Epstein
Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to… — Rajneesh
For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does… — Rajneesh
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in… — John Cage
Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish,… — Talcott Parsons
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's… — Rollo May
I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the… — Tim McGraw
A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will… — Pope John Paul II
Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If… — Rajneesh
The master is already merged into existence. Merging into the master you are really merging with existence itself. The master functions only as a door,… — Rajneesh
So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly blooms into love,… — Rajneesh
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease,… — Gerald Edelman
The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain… — Seymour S. Kety
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain… — Wilder Penfield
The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever… — Ray V. Pierce

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