Function Quotes

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A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described… — Matthew Rabin
In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In… — Amory Lovins
The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his… — Ludwig von Mises
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people.… — Rose Bird
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization. — Herbert Spencer
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the… — Richard Owen
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here… — Carlo Rovelli
A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not… — Jose Mujica
Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the… — Terry Rossio
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods. — Ludwig von Mises
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life. — Joseph Campbell
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value… — Tim Benton
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences — Frank Herbert
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. — Albert Allen Bartlett
Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the… — Ferdinand von Mueller
The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that… — Werner Erhard
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that… — David Korten

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