Function Quotes

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It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends… — Karl Jaspers
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within… — Bernard DeVoto
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in… — Jodi Picoult
For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him. — Carl Jung
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since… — Charles Alexander Eastman
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel.… — Stanley Kubrick
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I… — Stanley Kubrick
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do.… — Fernando Pessoa
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the… — Italo Calvino
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that… — Italo Calvino
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy,… — Hippocrates
When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned… — Marcus Borg
Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims… — Abul A'la Maududi
Each temple building is an inspiration, magnificent and beautiful in every way, but the temple building alone does not bless. The endowed blessings and divine… — James E. Faust
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when… — Ezra Taft Benson
Privacy is a function of liberty. — Edward Snowden
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press thatâ€”whether from fear, careerism, or convictionâ€”uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact,… — Glenn Greenwald
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement — Lucian Freud
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. — Frank Norris
The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source… — William Harvey

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