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Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

– Dean Koontz

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The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

– Peter S. Jennison

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908

– Mark Twain

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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

– Doug Larson

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Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was.

– Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad

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Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

– Dean Koontz

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The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all-inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.

– Phiroz Mehta

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The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

– Donald G. Smith

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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

– Margaret Hilda Thatcher

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