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• The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

  Stanislav Grof

  Brain, Locks, World

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". www.maps.org. 1984.

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• The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Prayer, Reality

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

  Robert Sheckley

  Godly, Names, Should

  Robert Sheckley (2014). “Dimension of Miracles”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• And I am a weapon of massive consumption
  And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.

  Lily Allen

  Weapons, Faults, Consumption

  Song: The Fear, Album: It's Not Me, It's You, 2009

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• As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Two, Creating, Goal

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

  Brian Tracy

  Organization, Essentials, Employee

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.32, Jaico Publishing House

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• My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'

  Claude Shannon

  Names, Ideas, Two

  "Scientific American", Vol. 225, (p. 180), 1971.

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• Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.

  Henry Moore

  Spiritual, Moving, Expression

  Henry Moore (1986). “Henry Moore”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

  Sidney Hillman

  Running, Believe, Machines

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• Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

  D. A. Carson

  Jealous, Love Is, Wrath

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• I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.

  Torii Hunter

  Baseball, Special, Als

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• Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Art, Single Mom, Mean

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.1, Pendragon Press

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• The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Would Be, Argument

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• I consider that all Jews in the Diaspora, and thus it is true in France, should everywhere they can lend their support to Israel. This is why it is also important that Jews take political responsabilities. .... In sum, in my functions and in my everyday life, through the whole of my actions, I try to make so that my modest stone is brought to the construction of the land of Israel.

  Dominique Strauss-Kahn

  Israel, Land, Support

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• The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind’s strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities, we cannot function. When we drink a glass of water, drive a car, or have a conversation, we are using mindfulness and awareness.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Glasses, Water, Car

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• The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.

  Chris Hedges

  Real, America, Intuition

  Chris Hedges (2008). “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.

  Chris Hedges

  Thinking, Needs, Roles

  Chris Hedges (2011). “Death of the Liberal Class”, p.16, Nation Books

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• That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Dna, Receiving

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• If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Real

  1859 'Salon of 1859', section 2, in Curiosites Esthetiques (1868).

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• The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

  Enoch Powell

  Evil, Supreme, Statesmanship

  John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”

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• My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

  Francis Crick

  Want, Structure And Function, Study

  "What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery". Book by Francis Crick, 1988.

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• It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Men, Order, Political

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• The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night.

  Howard Brenton

  Art, Night, Lunch

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• Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.

  Ellen Lupton

  Book, Reading, Offering

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.87, Chronicle Books

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• Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.

  Robert Graves

  Religious, Children, Believe

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