The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures.… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function. — Dave Holland Copy Share Image
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists. — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad… — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for… — David Copy Share Image
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,'… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression?… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction,… — Adrian Wilson Copy Share Image
after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to… — David Galula Copy Share Image
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things? — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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