Function Quotes
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We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
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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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Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.
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The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
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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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For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.
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Priority is a function of context.
