Function Quotes
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As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
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The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
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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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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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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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Frustration is a function of our expectations.
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What is the function of the heart, if not to convince the blood to stay moving with the limits where it belongs, to stay at home.
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At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.
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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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Which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.
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People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.
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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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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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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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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.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
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I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.
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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
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As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.
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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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The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.
