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• Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Expression, Brain, Fundamentals

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.112, Guilford Publications

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• The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises.

  Nick Harkaway

  Exercise, People, Machines

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House

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• Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell ourselves stories through our dreams, and it's been shown that those who are prevented from doing so cease to function.

  Michael Ruhlman

  Dream, Sleep, Culture

  Michael Ruhlman (2005). “House: A Memoir”, Viking Press

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• Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination.

  Lorraine Moller

  Running, Heart, Air

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• Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over to the voluntary, consensual forces of market society.

  Roderick T. Long

  Doctrine, Anarchy, States

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• My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

  Bill Buxton

  Order, Best Effort, Design

  Bill Buxton (2010). “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”, p.37, Morgan Kaufmann

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• We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Building, Should, Familiar

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• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Expression, Discipline, Creative

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• When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Creating, Tree

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.94, Library of America

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• We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high grade, so that it will function as the base material as a nuclear weapon. And there's no doubt about the fact that the level of effort has escalated in recent months.

  Dick Cheney

  Effort, Doubt, Levels

  "Dick Cheney, Benghazi, and White House Lies" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. May 15, 2013.

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• It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Years, Racism

  "Black Studies Center public dialogue. Pt. 2 (A Humanist View)", May 30, 1975.

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• I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted

  Pat Metheny

  Thinking, Play, World

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• On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.

  Princess Marie Bonaparte

  Strong, Pain, Pregnancy

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• Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.240

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• I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

  Ansel Adams

  Eye, Creative, Innovation

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• I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

  Gloria Steinem

  Unique, Years, Body

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• The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North
  Star, to serve as a guiding point.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, North Star, Ideals

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• The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Political, Purpose

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.319

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• Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Principles, Essentials, Body

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.159, Rowman & Littlefield

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• While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

  Minor White

  Play, Roles, Photographer

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• I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Machines, Refrain

  Margaret Sanger (1916). “What Every Girl Should Know”

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• The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

  Jean Monnet

  Europe, Fusion, Economic

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• Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Psychology, Tools

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.189, Open Road Media

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• Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

  William James

  Truth, Add, Facts

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.105, Lulu Press, Inc

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