Function Quotes
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History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.
Edward Hallett Carr -
Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
Ellen Langer
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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.
Cathy Lamb -
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
Herbert Spencer -
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Michel Foucault -
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.
Sergio Leone -
Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.
Daniel Amen -
You can still function as a living ruin.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
Neve Campbell -
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.
Ernest Mandel -
Faith is the function of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.
Charlize Theron -
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.
Barbara Chase-Riboud -
Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function that Europe shouldn't underestimate.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
Charles A. Reich -
I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.
Wole Soyinka -
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.
John Stuart Mill -
Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.
Wolfgang Schauble -
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
Ernst von Glasersfeld -
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
Boris Sidis
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Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.
Raymond Loewy -
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.
Ervin Laszlo -
Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
Harry Vardon -
Dynamism is a function of change.
Hillary Clinton