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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

Topics: Churches Contribute Fail Far Freedom Function Government Human Human Freedom Industries Institutions Like Need Other Perform Properly Reconstruction Than Whole Wrong

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If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

~Charles W. Pickering

Topics: America Body By The People Catastrophic Continue Elected Event Function House Know Large Legally Members Needs Out People Portion Quickly Will

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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

Topics: Altered Apart Function Hard Human Left Much Perhaps Pretty Single Somehow Technology Think

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My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Chiefly Function Invention Kindle Prior Reading Snapshot

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If your home is anything like mine, it contains several rarely explored crannies stashed full of archaic chargers, defunct cables, and freshly antiquated gizmos whose sole useful function in 2011 is to make 2005 feel like 1926, simply by looking big and dull and impossibly lumpen.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Antiquated Anything Big Contains Dull Explored Feel Full Function Home Like Looking Make Mine Rarely Several Simply Sole Useful Whose Your

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The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.

~Che Guevara

Topics: Bed Both Consumption Drinks Fighters Fixed Function Games Get Go Guerrilla Hours Hurt Morale Prohibited Required Should Social Troops Up

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Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first, they physically isolate us from the outside world and those in it who love us; then they work to divide prisoners from one another by inculcating our distrust in one another.

~Chelsea Manning

Topics: Another Any Charged Distrust Divide First Function Imprisoned Isolate Keeping Love Means Other Our Outside Outside World Physically Prisoners Prisons Support Than Then Those Us Who Work World

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The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.

~Chelsea Manning

Topics: Diverse Duty Function Large Military Public Serve

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It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

~Chester W. Nimitz

Topics: Carry Enemy Fought Function Navy Soil War

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Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of whatever it is the organization does.

~Chris Fussell

Topics: Actual Advancement Bureaucratic Control Distance Does Fewer Function Generally Implementation Increased Increasing Means More Organization Peers Span Whatever

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