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Function Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own…
- What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from…
- All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of…
- The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility…
- There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a…
- I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
- The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling…
- Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
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- You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function… — Dick Cheney
- In every situation you have ever been in, positive or negative, the one common thread is you. It is your responsibility, and… — Unkown
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson
- I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you… — Rajneesh
- Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the… — Thomas Jefferson
- Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and… — Barack Obama
- Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche