Functions Quotes

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That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy. — Charles Tart
The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is… — Roberto Assagioli
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the… — Robert Grudin
So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well. — Alphonso Jackson
A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that,… — Roy H. Williams
The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's… — Arshile Gorky
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of… — Bill Bryson
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or… — Peter Singer
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look… — Thomas Frank
By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms, — Vinod Khosla
We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions. — Hugh Herr
The skin is our body's envelope, the wrapping that delivers us to the world. If we understand how the skin functions in mid-life and adjust… — Jane Fonda
When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to… — Plato
The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to… — Carl Jung
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it… — Gaston Bachelard
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking… — Alfred North Whitehead
Actually, the mysteries of water are similar to those of the blood in the human body. In Nature, normal functions are fulfilled by water just… — Viktor Schauberger
Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you… — Esa-Pekka Salonen
The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information is… — Brien McMahon
For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to… — Eleanor Roosevelt

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