Quotes 81 till 100 of 125.
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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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The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
Birdsong (2010) 9 -
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
Multiple Personality: an Experimental Investigation into Human Individuality (1904) -
The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of the writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
The Unquiet Grave (1944) -
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 182
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