Function Quotes

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of… — Herbert Spencer
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the… — Louis Pasteur
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. — Doug Larson
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.… — John F. Kennedy
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because… — Rajneesh
The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of… — Rajneesh
I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you inside yourself have… — Rajneesh
Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta,… — Rajneesh
When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in you. As far… — Rajneesh
The main function of color should be to serve expression. — Henri Matisse
My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote.… — Paul Klee
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another… — Dan Simmons
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions… — Alan Barth
The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites… — William O. Douglas
The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to… — Thomas Jefferson
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows… — Mahatma Gandhi
The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the… — Immanuel Kant
Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own. — Joan Rivers

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