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But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

~Arlen Specter

Topics: Another Entitled Function Job Judges One Way Our Perform Risky Security Society Very Vital Way

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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Effective Function Heaven Hell Hell Is Inferno Inhabitants Knows Make None Purgatory Reality Secret

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I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

~Art Spiegelman

Topics: Because Best Better Better Off Book Date Download Function Future Going Having Inventions Need New Off Out Reserved Say Supplements Technological Textbook Things Update Where Will Would You

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I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: About Agree Banks Capital Clear Everyone Function Government Mean Own Should Stress Tests Worry

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Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.

~Artur Davis

Topics: Any Citizens Dead Exercising Function Light Names Out Rights Suppression Votes Voting Who

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Lending rate is a function of both liquidity as well as credit demand.

~Arundhati Bhattacharya

Topics: Both Credit Demand Function Lending Liquidity Rate Well

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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.

~Asa Gray

Topics: Conviction Define Different Difficulties Disturbed Encountered Former Function He Kind Kingdoms Life Naturalist Seriously Structure Them Two Were Which Wholly

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My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Anymore Apartheid Artist Been Believed Defined Democracy Era Function Going Had Life My Life Now Really Useful Were Years

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The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

~August Krogh

Topics: Adaptation Adapted Birds Definitely Fact Flight Fly Form Function Greatly Mechanisms Reduced Respiratory Show Which

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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Away Earth Function Individual Individual Rights Majority Minorities Minority Oppression Political Precisely Protect Public Right Rights Smallest Subject Vote

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