Function Quotes
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I am emotionally screwed up, but I put on a front and fake it so I can function. Sometimes I wonder how many other people are doing the same thing.
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When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.
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Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.
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A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
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There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.
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I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.
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Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.
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The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
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Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.
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Faith is the function of the heart.
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Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
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The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.
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Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.
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The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
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A new level of organization means a simplification of system function, and of the corresponding system structure, it also means the initiation of a process of progressive structural and functional complexification.
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Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.
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I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.
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You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.
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A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.
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Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
