Function Quotes

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The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all… — Lawren Harris
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.… — Theodore Roosevelt
Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also… — Rachel Carson
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for… — Theodore Roosevelt
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life. — Vincent Massey
Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this… — David
It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through… — Harold B. Lee
I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream. — Walt Disney
Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds… — Pythagoras
It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself… — Walter Cronkite
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population… — Maxwell Perkins
Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from… — Gerald R. Ford
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually… — Frederick Lenz
The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which… — Gaston Bachelard
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will… — Joseph Campbell
claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of… — Joseph Conrad
Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity. — Amy Dickinson
The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for hilarious civic functions,… — Mike Harding
Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes. Dreams are not just… — Frederick Lenz
If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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