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 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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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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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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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 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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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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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 function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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 function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
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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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It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
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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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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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The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.
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what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
