Function Quotes

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My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but… — William Shakespeare
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I… — Rene Descartes
You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that… — Brad Warner
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that… — Michael Crichton
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different… — Hunter S. Thompson
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person… — Anne Lamott
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I."… — Peter Drucker
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark… — J M Coetzee
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance… — Hakim Bey
The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere,… — Wilhelm Reich
The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what… — Elizabeth Gilbert
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance… — Martha Graham
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the… — Joseph Campbell
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-itâ€™s to imagine what is possible. — Bell Hooks
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. — Blaise Pascal
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility… — Bertrand Russell
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness. — David Mazzucchelli
Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and thatâ€™s the thingâ€”youâ€™re a couple, and couples canâ€™t function without trust. — Nicholas Sparks

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