Function Quotes

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Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without… — Germaine Greer
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrÃ©e of the spouses to their middle-class status. This… — Germaine Greer
Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future,… — Eckhart Tolle
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. — Leonhard Euler
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with… — Sebastiao Salgado
When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in. — Gabrielle Bernstein
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. — Charles Hermite
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with… — Charles Hermite
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes… — Juan Goytisolo
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world,… — Hilary Putnam
In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or… — Auberon Waugh
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in… — Edward Hallett Carr
Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems… — Nancy Pearcey
The form follows the function. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional… — Jonathan Ive
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from… — H. L. Mencken
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach… — Alfred Russel Wallace
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to… — Oliver Sacks
Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a… — Ernst Haeckel
When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such… — Huineng

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