Quotes 61 till 80 of 117.
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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
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So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
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Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
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That is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
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The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences - as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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