#function

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#chosen #determine #elders #entitled #exercise

If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adoption-search #dysfunction #dysfunctional-families #family-relationships #mothers

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#function #man #reason #show #some

It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay. ↗

— Brody Armstrong

#functions #how #important #just #lot

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet. ↗

— Mary Bono

#economy #federal #fine #functioning #inner

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 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

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#always #any #creative #first #functioning

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#best #completely #democratic #democratic government #fulfills

The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#arm #body #brain #chronic #continual