Function Quotes

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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. — James A. Baldwin
I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within… — Stephen Baldwin
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. — Dave Barry
I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else. — Drew Barrymore
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure… — Michael Behe
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own;… — Pope Benedict XVI
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of… — Arnold Bennett
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. — Corrie Ten Boom
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people… — Andrea Bocelli
This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to… — David Bohm
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can… — David Bohm
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of… — Alvar Aalto
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it… — Robert Bork
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech… — Louis D. Brandeis
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis… — David Brinkley
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. — Rita Mae Brown
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. — Rita Mae Brown
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending… — Harry Browne
In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three… — Gro Harlem Brundtland

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