Function Quotes

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The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he… — Karl Marx
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter
That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not… — Jasper Johns
I wish I could free myself from making music that has a dancefloor-function, or at least try to focus more on all the other elements… — Hans-Peter LindstrÃ¸m
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and… — Anna Friel
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. — Margaret Fuller
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. — Neil Gaiman
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street… — William Gibson
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of… — Emma Goldman
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on… — Andy Goldsworthy
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. — Germaine Greer
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain… — G I Gurdjieff
A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. — James S. Coleman
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as… — Charles Horton Cooley
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In… — Rachel Cusk
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. — Angela Davis

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