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"I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision." »Barber B. Conable, Jr
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"...it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art." »John W.N. Sullivan
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"Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one." »Charles De Gaulle
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"social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation." »John Dewey
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"“In our quest to become more social, and intelligent, Are we, human kind becoming socially inept due to our own technology. Is our technology making the world smaller? … or driving us from social interaction?”" »Larry Levesque
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"It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good." »Pope Pius XI
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"Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich." »Eva Pern
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"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." »Thomas Sowell
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"When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too." »Bayard Rustin
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"Form follows function." »Louis Henri Sullivan
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"There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function." »Georges Clemenceau
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"To live is to function. That is all there is in living." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." »Lester R Bittel
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"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." »Unknown
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"The proper function of man is to live - not to exist." »Jack London
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"Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open." »Thomas Dewar
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." »Max Eastman
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"The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life." »W. Edward Brown
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"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." »Unknown
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"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought." »Sir Thomas Beecham
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"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer
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"The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment." »Dave Barry
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"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." »An Wang
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"Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other." »Raymond Loewy
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"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent." »Henry Commager
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"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting. (on those behind the 911 attacks)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." »Frank Herbert
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"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent." »Henry Commager
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"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward." »Margaret Fairless Barber
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