Functions Quotes

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The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever… — Ray V. Pierce
I want color and form to have contradictorily functions. — Josef Albers
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. — Felix Morley
Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted. — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since… — Mary Hesse
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together… — J. C. R. Licklider
Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something… — Mooji
And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God. — Carl Jung
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be… — Avicenna
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures. — Alan Perlis
A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular… — Fritjof Capra
The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the… — Bruce R. McConkie
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his… — Ludwig von Mises
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the… — Ferdinand von Mueller
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All… — Peter Drucker
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each… — James Madison
[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply… — George Washington
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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