#function

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#day #deserve #economy #essential #every

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#book #character #contents #first #function

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#listening #more #music #process #reading

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#feel #function #make #men #only

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#continue #create #depths #embraces #form

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#about #biological #come #computer #computers

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on. ↗

— David Bohm

#any #body #corporation #department #function

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. ↗

— David Bohm

#fertile #function #generally #harmonious #help

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#cannot #extinguished #function #seduce #tolerance

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#been #country #dictator #failing #functioning