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• The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Philosophy, School

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Philosophy, Educational

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• The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Military, War, Air

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• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sports, Strong, Hockey

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
  Lives not alone immured in the brain;
  But, with the motion of all elements,
  Courses as swift as thought in every power,
  And gives to every power a double power,
  Above their functions and their offices.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Eye, Giving

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [327]

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• In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.

  Dave Barry

  Drinking, Beer, Shoes

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

  Ken Venturi

  Golf, Pace, Clock

  Ken Venturi, Al Barkow (1983). “The Venturi System: With Special Material on Shotmaking for the Advanced Golfer”, Atheneum Books

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• Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Happiness, Emotional, Profound

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

  Aristotle

  Heart, Soul, Brain

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• There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

  Rene Descartes

  Exercise, Soul, Brain

  "Passions of the Soul".

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• At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, School, Visitors

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• Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, God Image, Concerned

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• Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.

  Saint Augustine

  Taken, Men, Together

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• If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Wisdom, Destiny, Men

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• A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

  Hans Hofmann

  Ideas

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press

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• Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Love, Family, Children

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• Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

  H. G. Wells

  Military, Democracy, Election

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• The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

  Ellen Key

  Mother, Baby, Precious Possessions

  Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.42, Ellen Key

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• Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Cat, Psychics

  William S Burroughs (2012). “The Cat Inside”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

  Daniel Amen

  Health, Sleep, Night

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• The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

  Dave Barry

  Government, Politics, Entertainment

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Life, Jobs, People

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• The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Humanity, Secret

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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