Evan Davis Quotes
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.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.
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History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
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Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.
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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
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There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
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Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.
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It's great for the community to provide so much for the homeless.
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When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.
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You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.
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Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
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The sole function of education... to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
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In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.
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I hope you enjoyed your visit. You never know. You may want to join forever.
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The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.
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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.
