Function Quotes
1769 quotes by 1322 authors
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Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy their individual characteristics…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man,…
— Joseph Campbell
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June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that…
— Audre Lorde
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The master maker of the human body did not create you and then run off and leave you masterless. He stayed on the job as…
— B. J. Palmer
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Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist.
— Joseph Campbell
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Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
— Ellen Langer
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I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities,…
— Jonas Salk
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The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego…
— Alan Watts
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Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter…
— Ayn Rand
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
— Ann Voskamp
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Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive
— John F. Kennedy
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Colors express the main psychic functions of man.
— Carl Jung
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Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. It’s a…
— Jessa Gamble
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Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a…
— Michael Pollan
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Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh…
— Shoghi Effendi
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I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books . Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the…
— Barack Obama
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Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep…
— Dolph Lundgren
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Animals have two vital functions in today's society; to be delicious and to fit well.
— Greg Proops
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I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.
— Britt Ekland
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