Function Quotes
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If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.
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I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
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Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.
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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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A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
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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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Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
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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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Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
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The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for hilarious civic functions, smashing the previous record set when Baron Hans Neizant B ompzidaize was elected Landburgher of K oln in 1653.
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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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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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'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
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what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
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I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
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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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I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.
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He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.
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I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.
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The function of religion means that faith is a lamp in our lives which illuminates the path for people.
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A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
