Function Quotes

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For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate… — George Orwell
Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help… — Michel Foucault
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute — Amartya Sen
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In… — Jon Krakauer
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. — Stephen Covey
Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. — Colum McCann
At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design.… — Brandon Sanderson
There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it… — Steven Brust
How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and… — Albert Einstein
The various forms of education or â€˜normalizationâ€™ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a… — Gilles Deleuze
I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence. — Douglas Adams
Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the… — Gilles Deleuze
Poirot said placidly, â€œOne does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up… — Agatha Christie
Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there,… — Terry Pratchett
The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must… — Oliver Sacks
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a â€˜functionâ€™, one cog… — Yukio Mishima
And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individualâ€™s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when… — Timothy Leary
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed… — Greg L. Bahnsen
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The… — David Eagleman
The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on… — Alice Miller

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