#function

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. ↗

— Earle Brown

#beginning #cage #changes #concepts #consciously

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. ↗

— William Burroughs

#function #functioning #happiness #happy #simply

A functioning police state needs no police. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#needs #police #police state #state

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#clearly #country #function #institutions #me

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#beginning #character #commission #consequence #doubts

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#burden #doing #economy #functions #how

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#behavior #christians #cruel #dissenters #even

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. ↗

— Barber Conable

#decision #drag #function #heels #i

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#consequence #function #masterpiece #other #produce