Function Quotes

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All appeals to Scripture are appeals to interpretations of Scripture. The only real question is: whose interpretation? People with differing interpretations of Scripture cannot set… — Keith Mathison
If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function… — Kathleen Tessaro
The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of… — Plato
Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter? — Arthur Nersesian
Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just… — Janet Schwegel
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and… — Alec Soth
The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of… — Herbie Hancock
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. — Johan Huizinga
In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ...… — James A. Garfield
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to… — James Madison
For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy… — Corliss Lamont
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as… — Corliss Lamont
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with… — Viola Spolin
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to… — Muhammad Iqbal
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only… — Thomas Merton
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions,… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives… — Tucker Viemeister
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it,… — Gianfranco Frattini
With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension. — Ladislav Sutnar
The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in… — Will Burtin

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