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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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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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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Cork offers the ability to provide our customers with multilingual support.
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To the South African parliament: I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.
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Dynamism is a function of change.
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For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.
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I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.
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I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.
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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.
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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.
