Function Quotes
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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?
Beatrice Sparks
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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.
George Stillman Hillard
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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.
Sunil Yapa
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As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
Michael Behe
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In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
Stephen Covey
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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.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Miguel de Unamuno
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The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
Amedeo Modigliani
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Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
Stephen Covey
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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.
Anita Pointer
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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.
Michael Schultz
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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.
Richard John Neuhaus
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The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.
Eugene McCarthy
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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.
Terence McKenna
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Priority is a function of context.
Stephen Covey
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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
Daria Halprin
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How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.
Elena Ferrante
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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.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
Stephen Covey
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Michel Foucault
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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.
Michel Foucault
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My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.
Ewan MacColl
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Edwin H. Friedman