Function Quotes

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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical… — Sigmund Freud
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil. — Chester W. Nimitz
A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular… — Fritjof Capra
In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth… — Sam Zell
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any… — Philip J. Klass
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information… — David Foster Wallace
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. — Max Eastman
The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them. — Sid Grossman
Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The… — Elliott Erwitt
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable… — Edward Abbey
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own… — H. L. Mencken
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It… — B.F. Skinner
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. — Grady Booch
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and… — Robert G. Vosper
The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the… — Bruce R. McConkie
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment… — Dalai Lama
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich… — Lewis Henry Steiner
Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the… — Kevin Mattson
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to… — Arthur Curley
...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed. — Carlo M. Cipolla

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