Function Quotes
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An item must have a soul, it must function properly, be nice to hold and a pleasure to look at
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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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Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.
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I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.
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Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.
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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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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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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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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
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With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began to be used to refer to people. ... In the industrial age, a new degree of uniformity was expected of people. The rhythms and pacing of life could no longer be organic. People became expected to function like things.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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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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The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.
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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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Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that.
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You can still function as a living ruin.
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The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
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Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.
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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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People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.
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The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.
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What's that Regina Spektor song? Museums are like mausoleums. Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive. Typically your work will end up in a museum after you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead. But while we're alive, I like to see it in places where it's connected to day-to-day life and making a difference.
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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
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Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
