Function Quotes

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Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque… — Roland Barthes
Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness. — Scott Adams
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted… — Norman Schwarzkopf
...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want… — Henri Bergson
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites. — Robert Graves
I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine,… — Charles Bukowski
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public. — Maxim Gorky
Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling… — Erich Fromm
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of… — Frederic Bastiat
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills… — Ludwig von Mises
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child… — Roald Dahl
We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and… — Malcolm Gladwell
Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the bodyâ€™s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing… — Patch Adams
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of… — W. E. B. Du Bois
There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not… — Stephen King
[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a… — John Kennedy Toole
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather,… — J D Salinger
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of… — Ayn Rand

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