Function Quotes
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The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.
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The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
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Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
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At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.
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It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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What is the function of the heart, if not to convince the blood to stay moving with the limits where it belongs, to stay at home.
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To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
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Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
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There is a certain depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation: the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time. One cannot bear to live through another loss of function, and sometimes friends and family cannot bear to watch. An unspoken, unbridgeable divide may widen. Even if you are still who you were, you cannot actually fully be who you are.
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I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
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I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions.
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Priority is a function of context.
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One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as representations of the current stage of a particular female’s psyche. The men function as catalysts, and are certainly important to the development of the story, but the relationships are not the goal. I do not see romance as being what’s central to the success of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS.
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How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.
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...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.
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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.
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In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.
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The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.
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Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
