Function Quotes

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If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no… — David Suzuki
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. — Margaret Thatcher
The function of posterity is to look after itself. — Dylan Thomas
Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. — Lewis Thomas
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that… — Alvin Toffler
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. — Benjamin Tucker
I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher. — Gabrielle Union
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. — Leonardo da Vinci
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. — Jacki Weaver
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You… — Ai Weiwei
If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life. — Brian Wilson
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks… — E. O. Wilson
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. — Robert Anton Wilson
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence… — Robert Winston
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. — Tom Wolfe
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. — Carter G. Woodson
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. — Frank Lloyd Wright
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. — Lin Yutang
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways. — Martin Filler

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