Function Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.
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The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
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We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.
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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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Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.
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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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'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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I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
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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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A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
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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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In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.
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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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And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
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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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A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
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Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.
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There are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words.
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Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
