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functions
«Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
| Keywords:
functions, nomad, nomads, nothingness, rooming, rooming house
«The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.»
Author: Kate Millett
(Artist, Author)
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confined, cultural, exercising, functions, providing, reproduction, reproductions, sexual reproduction, The Animal
«One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
dangers, functions, solely, take account, trusting
«Of course, everybody wants the permanent representative at their functions. You can only split the permanent representative 10 ways. Scheduling is a problem.»
«Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous»
«The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democratic, functions, performed
«The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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aimless, crowds, encouraged, functions, multiply, outgrow, outgrowing, outgrown, outgrows, servile
«I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.»