Function Quotes

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There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits. — Margaret Atwood
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. — Daniel Webster
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast… — Douglas Coupland
Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know… — William S. Burroughs
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look… — Antonin Artaud
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity… — Joseph Campbell
The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the… — Ayn Rand
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks,… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring… — Paulo Freire
But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The Iâ€™ll love you through a brick… — Jeffrey McDaniel
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder.… — Gerard Way
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others… — Eckhart Tolle
The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. — Douglas Rushkoff
We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to… — Alton Brown
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the… — Molly Ivins
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit natureâ€¦ the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling… — H. L. Mencken
I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken… — Tom Waits

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