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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.
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.
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.
I can't stand adversity and stress and drama and tension. I can't function in that environment. If I have anything to say about it, we're going to get rid of it so that everyone can just relax and have a good time.
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.
Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.
A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.
Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.
Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
Even though I struggle with severe diminished brain function, I take 100 percent responsibility for every word that comes out of my mouth and gladly admit to my mistakes.
Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.
I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
Capitalism doesn't function when it starts to contract, and we can see that quite clearly right here in the eurozone. It's like pushing a giant monster under water that's gasping for air. It goes nuts.
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."
[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.
I think a lot of wrestling companies probably function with one person who at the end of the day has to make calls and go over everything. But we're a bunch of people working together, we have a system.
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.
I know how things function in showbiz and how much hard work is required to make a mark in this industry.
It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.
I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.
A lot of the weaknesses we have are based on a lack of lateral movement, which can set you up for injury. When you exercise in multiple planes, you see improvements in balance, mobility, and function.
Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.
The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.
In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'
It is correct that securing the border is a government function, but when the government fails, it has a specific and significant impact on individual landowners.
Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.
My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.
Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization.
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent.
My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.
The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.
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
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think
I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).
I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.
For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.
Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.
Now, I was one of those kids who grew up privy to both his parents' secrets, who acted as the intermediary between them and eased their estrangements: that was my function in the household.
