#function

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#away #awful #body #body shop #company

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#among #basis #betterment #between #black

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#basically #certain #forms #function #interpretation

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it. ↗

— James Levine

#function #i #involved #just #look

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#higher #higher level #level #raise #socialism

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#because #been #chance #discover #every

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really. ↗

— George Michael

#i #my own #own #really #surprised

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#been #exactly #fringes #function #i

We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics. ↗

— David Milne

#battery #being #better #continuing #electronics