Function Quotes
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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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What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
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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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Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.
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Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
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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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I think it's very easy to get lost in the idea of touring and forget that your body is not a machine and can only function if you treat it with love.
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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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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
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The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.
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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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Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.
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The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.
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Dynamism is a function of change.
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I find it gross to talk about bodily functions like shitting or farting or your period, if you're a girl, unless it's extremely necessary.
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Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
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The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.
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Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.
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Faith is the function of the heart.
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Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.
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We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
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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.
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As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken.
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Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
