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• The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Power, Bored

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• All of man's ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God's universe is founded upon its perfection of Balance. All of man's ills are caused by toxic poisons generated in his body through unbalance affecting his power of control over the functions of his electric body. Man, as an extension of God, is creator of his own electric body. He is master of his electric body to the extent of his knowing the Light of God in him. ... God says to man: »What I do, ye shall do«, but man is unbelieving for long ages.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Knowing, Light

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• Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Stupidity, Causes, Insult

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• Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

  Charles de Gaulle

  History, Action, Deliberation

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• I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Believe, Loss

  The New York Times, p. 15, March 16, 1968.

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• All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Matter, Aptitude

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Art, Feelings

  "The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It".

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• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

  Albert Einstein

  School, Thinking, Knowing

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

  Albert Einstein

  Obviousness, Opinion, Certain

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• Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.

  Verner Panton

  Decision, Conscious, Should

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• I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions.

  Enki Bilal

  Opposites, Political, Generations

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• Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

  Friedrich Kittler

  Reading, Lines, Letters

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• The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions, is an odd concept. In my youth I was running from my family to try to find out who I was-their influence distracted me. Now I see what a powerful hold they have, no matter what.

  Susan Minot

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

  Colin Ward

  Organization, Simplicity, Anarchy

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• I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Want, Matter, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Challenges, Different, Lines

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• Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

  Morgan Freeman

  Different, Sake, Way

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• There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends, and there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

  David Foster

  Love, People, Giving

  "Fictional character: Dr. Gregory House". TV Series "House" ("TB or Not TB", 2005), www.imdb.com. (2004–2012).

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• The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.

  George Dzundza

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out

  Gregg Braden

  Our World, Odds, Doors

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• It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Children, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells.

  Alison Stewart

  Baby, Cancer, Confused

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• When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.

  Holly Marie Combs

  Mom, Sleep, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

  Diane di Prima

  Truth, Thinking, Two

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• CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.

  Marilyn Tavenner

  Track, Expectations, Records

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