Quotes 101 till 120 of 125.
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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
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The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p. -
The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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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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These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
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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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