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«The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: as to, function, imagination, much as, settled, settle in, settle on, so much, strange
«The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.»
Author: Gerry Spence | About: Law and lawyers | Keywords: function, Law and Justice, preserve, provide, The Law
«The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.»
Author: Hugh Trevor-Roper | About: Genius | Keywords: answers, function, pose, posed, poses, posing, solve
«The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader) | Keywords: critically, function, intelligence, intensively, one to, plus, pluses, The Goal
«The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.»
Author: Ralph Nader (Activist, Lawyer) | Keywords: follower, followers, function, leaders, leadership, produce
«The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Theologian) | About: God | Keywords: function, influence, prayer, prays
«The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.»
Author: Theodor W. Adorno | About: Lies | Keywords: convey, function, long since
«The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | Keywords: case, cased, except, function, genitals, his case, muscle, muscle into, pull, pulling out, pull in, pull over, pull through, pull up, push, push on, push up, tongue, tongued
«The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: determine, function, obey, orders, originate, originate in, originating, patriot, prerogative, prerogatives, servant, temporary, the government
«The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | Keywords: chief, function, The Brain, The Chief
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