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The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Ceases Does Energy Every Every Sunday Function God Imagination Important Important Thing Let Us Life Longer Most Most Important Thing My Life Pastor Primary Pulpit Say Stand Structure Sunday Terms The Most Important Then Thing Us Way Worship

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Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Against Age Central Come Concept Down Energy Fighting Following Function Had He Hierarchy His John John Paul Known Made Part Paul Pressure Program Reform Relentless Restoration Spending Which

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The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.

~Eva Zeisel

Topics: Attractive Designer Does Equally Every Follow Form Function Must Nor Process Production Solutions Understand Use

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A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

~Evan Davis

Topics: About Academia Bench Chair Chairs Describe Example For Example Found Function High Just Law Medium Oneself Parliament Place Professions Provide Seat Self-Expression Sit Something Status Themselves Used Why Words

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Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.

~Evan Davis

Topics: Adrenalin Asleep Awake Body Brain Causes Day Disciplined Duty Even Evidence Function Habits How Live Phenomenon Radio Regardless Should Sleeping Slowly Thinks Those Though Times Very Which While Wide

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Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Body Climbed Function Instruments Last Last Year Most Mount Must Order Percussion Physical Play Well Year

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A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

~Evgeny Morozov

Topics: Activities Challenge Civil Civil Society Corruption Democracy Enemies Function Like Media Mostly Opposition Parties Performed Political Power Society Those Vibrant Ngos

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Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

~Ezra Miller

Topics: Allowing Around Basic Beings Blank Blank Canvas Canvas Delicious Delicious Food Doing Eating Food Function Human Human Beings Intrinsic Like Music Natural Nature Personality Playing Return Running Something Sort Things True Way

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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Ability Definite Does Exactly Exist Function Literature Main Proportional Social Use Vacuum Writers

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The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Attempts Bodies Disprove Earth Food Function Gravity Heart Heavenly Longer Man Motion Need Pull Rotation Scientist Seasons Sequence True Water

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