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Function Quotes by Mark Twain
- All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
- What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we…
- Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,…
- The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide…
- All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded…
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- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson
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- 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
- So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly… — Rajneesh
- The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud