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• I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted

  Pat Metheny

  Thinking, Play, World

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• On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.

  Princess Marie Bonaparte

  Strong, Pain, Pregnancy

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• Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.240

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• I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

  Ansel Adams

  Eye, Creative, Innovation

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• I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

  Gloria Steinem

  Unique, Years, Body

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• The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North
  Star, to serve as a guiding point.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, North Star, Ideals

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• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Political, Purpose

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.319

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• Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Principles, Essentials, Body

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.159, Rowman & Littlefield

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• While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

  Minor White

  Play, Roles, Photographer

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• I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Machines, Refrain

  Margaret Sanger (1916). “What Every Girl Should Know”

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• The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

  Jean Monnet

  Europe, Fusion, Economic

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• Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Psychology, Tools

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.189, Open Road Media

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• Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

  William James

  Truth, Add, Facts

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.105, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Office, Watches

  Considerations on Representative Government ch. 5 (1861)

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• What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression

  Michel Foucault

  Running, Negative, Needs

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.

  Hannah Arendt

  Past, Order, Needs

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

  George H. W. Bush

  Order, America, Vision

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• There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

  Doris Humphrey

  Inspirational, Dance, Simple

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• My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

  Michele Bachmann

  Chiefs, Ability, Commander In Chief

  "What doctors have to say about Bachmann's migraines". www.nbcnews.com. July 20, 2011.

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• I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  Bat for Lashes

  Artist, Expression, Desire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

  David Mamet

  School, Multiple Choice, Interesting

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• Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Attitude, Thinking, Color

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• Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

  Piet Mondrian

  Stars, Sea, Sky

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force, implies no motion, and is least emotive. Therefore, it is the best form to use as a basic unit for any more elaborate function, the grammatical device from which the work may proceed.

  Sol LeWitt

  Interesting, Three, Use

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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