Function Quotes

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As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output,… — Christiane Northrup
The physical universe was created when Oneness became duality, and we can see this duality, this yin and yang, everywhere in the universe, in every… — Robert Tisserand
Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have… — C.S. Lewis
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. — John Henry Newman
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. — Ambrose Bierce
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Medications can lower a woman's sex drive and interfere with a woman's ability to climax. These medications include antidepressants, birth control pills and hormone medications.… — Drew Pinsky
CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function. — Judy Woodruff
No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is… — Robert Reich
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets. — George Osborne
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second… — Thomas de Quincey
The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only… — Eric Hoffer
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions. — William James
Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as… — Thomas Sowell
Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination. — Lewis Mumford
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? — Hippocrates
We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our… — Lewis Thomas
This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event… — Robert Penn Warren
Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is… — Tony Hendra
Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow… — Ludwig von Mises

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