Function Quotes
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
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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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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.
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I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
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Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
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Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
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Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
