Function Quotes
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We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
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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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Frustration is a function of our expectations.
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Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
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As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can also be understood as metaphors for the expression of our being
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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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I was just a total mess and I could not function. My managers were encouraging me to get therapy and I finally did.
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Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
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Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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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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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
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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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The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.
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The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.
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Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
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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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How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
