Function Quotes

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It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless… — Samuel J. Tilden
Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that… — Homer Smith
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector. — Ronald Reagan
According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for… — John Dye
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception — Grantly Dick-Read
The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a… — Evan Davis
As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer… — Lindy Boggs
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony… — Paul D. Boyer
Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful. — John Stuart Mill
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to… — John Berger
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer,… — Douglas Adams
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed,… — E. O. Wilson
An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way,… — Patricia L. Fry
Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do. — Alan Finger
Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just… — Eric A. Meyer
The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above. — Plato
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But… — Russ Shafer-Landau
A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only… — Gerald Asher
For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of… — Linda McQuaig

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