Quotes 101 till 117 of 117.
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
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To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
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True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
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When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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[To a railway stationmaster:] We must leave exactly on time.... From now on everything must function to perfection.
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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