Function Quotes

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I consider that all Jews in the Diaspora, and thus it is true in France, should everywhere they can lend their support to Israel. This… — Dominique Strauss-Kahn
The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mindâ€™s strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities, we… — Sakyong Mipham
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and… — Chris Hedges
It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of… — Chris Hedges
That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed… — Paul Berg
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the… — Charles Baudelaire
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. — Enoch Powell
If you want to understand function, study structure, — Francis Crick
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this… — Dmitri Mendeleev
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of… — Howard Brenton
Designers provide ways intoâ€”and out ofâ€”the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.… — Ellen Lupton
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.… — Robert Graves
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson
In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. — James Q. Wilson
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine… — James Q. Wilson
No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet. — Christopher Paolini
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as… — Kenneth Burke
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by… — Kenneth Burke
Even if any given terminology is aÂ reflectionÂ of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be aÂ selectionÂ of reality; and… — Kenneth Burke
These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the… — Samuel P. Huntington

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