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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

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Mind, Use, Clear

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1875). “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays”, p.365

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• I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

  Oliver Sacks

  Unique, Alzheimer's, Tools

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• Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a higher degree of psychic activity, a superior stage of development.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Men, Animal, Psychics

  ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

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• When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view.

  Huineng

  Thinking, Views, Mind

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• The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Art, Sex

  Erma Bombeck (1996). “Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Opening Up, Entrepreneur, Reform

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.132, Routledge

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• Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

  Carl Rogers

  Marriage, Learning, Agony

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• Faith is a function of the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Hands, Bonds Of Love

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• Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information.

  Paul Bley

  Music, Imagination, Information

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• The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Greed, Political

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• Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

  Freya Stark

  Inspirational, Sex, Children

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Spiritual, Mean, Exercise

  Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.105, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Money is what fueled the industrial society.  But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ignorance, Land, Class

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• Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer’s decisions.

  Noy Holland

  Character, Errors, Decision

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• Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Heart, Get Better, Myopia

  "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1950.

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• Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

  Caleb Carr

  New York, Charity, Killers

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• A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious way; it is organic when it ignores the division and the autonomization of the particular and when, by virtue of the system of hierarchical participation, every part within its relative autonomy performs its own function and enjoys an intimate connection with the whole.

  Julius Evola

  Ideas, Connections, Division

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• I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Technology, Way, Computer

  "Meet Le Geek: Francois-Henri Pinault". Interview with Joe Einhorn, techcrunch.com. August 5, 2012.

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• Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

  Fannie Hurst

  Guests, Gestures, Host

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• I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

  Evan Parker

  Thinking, Voice, Lines

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• It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better. You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political. There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.

  Bill Mollison

  Law, People, Political

  "Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution — An Interview with Bill Mollison". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. 2005.

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• Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system

  Bill Mollison

  Philosophy, Animal, Thoughtful

  Bill Mollison (1979). “Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture”, Permaculture Inst of

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• The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing

  Gerry Mulligan

  Mulligans, Baritones, Tenors

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• The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Thinking, Paper, Ambassadors

  Address in Edinburgh, Scotland, September 8, 1977.

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