quotes about Function
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Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.
-- Adnan Pachachi -
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception
-- Alfred Russel WallaceSource : Alfred Russel Wallace (1875). “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays”, p.365
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So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.
-- Alphonso JacksonSource : "Mr. Jackson is the Deputy Secretary for Department of Housing and Urban Development". "The Business of Government Hour" interview, www.businessofgovernment.org. May 19, 2003.
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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
-- Amedeo Modigliani -
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
-- Angela Davis -
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
-- Angela Davis -
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All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals
-- Antonio GramsciSource : "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
-- Aristotle -
It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.
-- Ashley MontaguSource : Ashley Montagu (1999). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, p.232, Rowman Altamira
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
-- Barry Goldwater -
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
-- Beatrice Sparks -
I function better when my back is to the wall.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
The whole function of education is to create Nazis.
-- Bernhard Rust -
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The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.
-- Brian Solis -
Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.
-- Brian Tracy -
If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.
-- Brian WilsonSource : "Larry King Live" Interview, August 20, 2004.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson -
It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
-- C.D. WrightSource : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.8, Copper Canyon Press
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
-- Charles A. ReichSource : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
-- Charles de Gaulle -
The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
-- Charles Stross -
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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
-- Colum McCann -
Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.
-- Cristina Saralegui -
A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
-- Daniel J. Bernstein -
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The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.
-- Dave Barry -
I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.
-- David Collenette -
When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
-- David HarveySource : "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.
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Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
-- Denise LevertovSource : Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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When you function in love, your inside creates your outside. When you function in fear, your outside creates your inside.
-- Drunvalo Melchizedek -
Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
-- E. M. Forster -
sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
-- Edith Hamilton -
The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.
-- Edward Abbey -
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Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.
-- Edward ConzeSource : Edward Conze (1979). “Politics, people and places”
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what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
-- Elizabeth JanewaySource : Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.
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The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
-- Ellen KeySource : Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.42, Ellen Key
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Photography is simply a function of noticing things.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
-- Enoch PowellSource : John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
-- Farley Mowat -
If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.
-- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche -
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One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
-- Francois Jacob -
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences
-- Frank Herbert -
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
-- Frank NorrisSource : Frank Norris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Frank Norris (Illustrated)”, p.2332, Delphi Classics
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I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
-- Franz Liszt -
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It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.
-- Gabrielle BernsteinSource : Twitter post from Mar 14, 2016
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Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.
-- George Russell -
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
-- George Santayana -
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I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
-- George Washington -
The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
-- Georges Braque -
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing
-- Gerry Mulligan -
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
-- Gerry SpenceSource : "From Freedom to Slavery : The Rebirth of Tyranny in America". Book by Gerry Spence, 1996.
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Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.
-- Giannina BraschiSource : "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1994.
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One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there ...
-- Gwethalyn Graham -
The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.
-- H. R. Giger -
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A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.
-- Hans Hofmann -
A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.
-- Hans HofmannSource : Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press
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Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.
-- Havelock Ellis -
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
-- Henri Poincare -
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If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.
-- Henry Blackaby -
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
-- Henry Petroski -
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.
-- Herbert Wilf -
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
-- Hippocrates -
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To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.
-- Hiroshi Sugimoto -
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
-- Indira Gandhi -
Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?
-- J. L. AustinSource : "Philosophical Papers". Book by J. L. Austin, edited by James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, p. 38, 1979.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
-- Jack Dee -
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
-- Jack London -
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
-- Jack VanceSource : "The Complete Lyonesse" by Jack Vance, Gollancz (p. 449), 2000.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
-- Jacki Weaver -
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The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
-- Jacques Lacan -
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
-- James Dewar -
I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
-- James Vincent McMorrow -
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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard -
I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
-- Jenny SlateSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.
-- Jim StanfordSource : Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr
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We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
-- Joey Skaggs -
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
-- Johan Huizinga -
employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.
-- John Kennedy Toole -
Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.
-- John L. Casti -
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So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.
-- John Milton -
What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.
-- John Murphy -
Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.
-- John Stott -
There's no other product that changes function like the computer.
-- Jonathan Ive -
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Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.
-- Jorg Immendorff -
The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.
-- Joseph Alexander Leighton -
...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.
-- Joshua Foer -
CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.
-- Judy Woodruff -