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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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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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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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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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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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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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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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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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
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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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I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
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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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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
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One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
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We have had success getting guys through here with this injury, ... I know it's magnified when it's your quarterback or a player of his magnitude. I understand how it becomes magnified, but we have a track record of being able to manage that injury, and we will see if we can't do the same. If he can't function at some point, we'll shut him down.
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what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
