Function Quotes

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative… — Ansel Adams
I didnâ€™t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I… — Gloria Steinem
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient. — Edward Abbey
The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into… — Thomas Jefferson
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to… — Alexander Hamilton
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at… — Minor White
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine. — Margaret Sanger
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. — Erich Fromm
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word… — William James
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the… — John Stuart Mill
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life… — Hannah Arendt
Homer no function beer well without. — Homer
My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function. — George H. W. Bush
There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words. — Doris Humphrey
My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief. — Michele Bachmann
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes… — David Mamet

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