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That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity. Charles Eastman
Alone Creative Degree Power Duty Approaches Solemn Claim Deity Some Parent Only Priestly Since Protecting Supreme Permitted His Office Which Who Function Believed
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. Charles Horton Cooley
Government Freedom Other Churches Reconstruction Properly Wrong Fail Perform Like Institutions Industries Than Contribute Human Far Human Freedom Whole Function Need
It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left. Charlie Brooker
Technology Single Think Pretty Somehow Perhaps Altered Left Human Apart Much Hard Function
I spend my days in an office in my house. There are things to be done that I don't have the skill set for. I'm able to learn on the fly, thank God, so I can function. But it's difficult. Chris Bosh
God Thank God Fly Difficult Spend Able Days House Learn Thank Office Done Skill Function Things Set
I'm still learning more about myself and my situation and really, off the court, how to function there, because I'm kind of getting the taste of retirement now. Chris Bosh
Myself Learning Situation Kind About More Retirement Because Court How Still Off Taste Getting Really Function Now
The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion. Christian Louboutin
Passion Other Mine Memorable Color Selected Red Identify Because Shiny Than Public Engaging Flirtatious Function
Once upon a time, the homemaker was just Mom, but now we've evolved and come to a place where we're celebrating grandmas, grandpas, moms, dads - all the people that keep it safe and clean for our kids - and the overall health for ourselves so we can continue to function and do the variety of things we all do. Christina Milian
Time Health Mom People Our Once Kids Ourselves Evolved Variety Clean Come Overall Safe Continue Celebrating Just Where Place Moms Function Dads Keep Homemaker Now Things
As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function. Clarence Seedorf
Made Understanding Group Minds Seeing Always How Been Interested Coaches Function Player
Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum. Clyde Edgerton
Sad Father Worldview Sense Fathering Approach Minimum Insights Adolescence Fade Fading Make Sort Least Very Wonder Begin Being Children Grand Create Your Flexible Fun Function Keep Play
Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function. Craig Venter
Randomly Insert Gene Small Genetic Pieces Just Middle Function Code Disrupt
Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play. Cristina Saralegui
Work Best Woman Distinguish Between Being Professional Function Play
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. Cyril Connolly
Today Science Myth Imagination Meet Artist Where Function Bring
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. Cyril Connolly
Other Books More Writer True Clearer Read Masterpiece Becomes Task Any Produce Function Consequence
It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive. Cyril Ramaphosa
Government Business Discipline Leader Members Executive Function
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history. Damien Chazelle
Art History People Guess Insane Rarely Give Clear Souls Itself Hearts Function Lives Actual
Neurons are living cells with a metabolism. And they need glucose in order to function. Glucose is the fuel of the brain, just like gasoline is the fuel of your car. Daniel Levitin
Car Living Neurons Like Metabolism Brain Cells Just Order Fuel Your Function Gasoline Need
Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing. Daveed Diggs
Stage Know Just Being Function Thing
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
Together Sense Society Corporation System Some Only Also Department Any Meaning Body Separately Organized 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
Mind Society Thinking Harmonious Way Possible Kind Only Could Generally New Overall Ideas Make Source Fertile Stable Human Orderly Which Turn Human Mind Theoretical Help Function Needed
When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it. David Fincher
People Behavior Somebody Met Believe Say Says Someone He Stuff Like Know Look Him Because Editorial Mean Might Act Function They Say Why Watching
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive. David Graeber
You Problem Money Will Revolution Entirely Seems Proposing Naive Particular Like Particular Problem Know Look Answer Always How Been Exist Question Revolutionaries After Hard Function Utopian Actually Eliminate
Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets retain their oceans is a function of distance from the sun, all other things being equal. David Grinspoon
Future Long Lose Past Other Distance Earth Sun Retain Equal Venus How Oceans Did Going Just Being In The Past Planets Function Things
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. David Hare
Politics Great Business System Entrepreneurial Just Capitalist Function Now
As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for us, our history needs to give context for stories that we hope to tell down the road. David Oyelowo
Hope Time Needs History Down Our Tell Give Road Primary Context Educators Artists Where Stories Us Down The Road Function
This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters. David Plouffe
Politics Government Congress Ought Those Running Disasters Affected Been Who Function Keep Play Basic
I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image. David Rockefeller
Important Local Corporations Allocating Support Also Discharge Understand Important Role Role Begun Suspect Them Communities Many Groups Helps Function Lives Play Image Funds
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