Function Quotes

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You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that something so good… — Ian Curtis
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All… — Peter Drucker
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each… — James Madison
[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply… — George Washington
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. — Walter Benjamin
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate… — Niels Kaj Jerne
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine… — Michael Parenti
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from… — Alexander Hamilton
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function… — Walter Lippmann
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not… — Thomas Jefferson
Leadership produces change. That is its primary function — John P. Kotter
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. — Robert Rauschenberg
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. — William S. Burroughs
Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. — Richard Owen
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function. — Richard Owen
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also… — Aristotle
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to… — William Wordsworth

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