Functions Quotes

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While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at… — Minor White
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life… — Hannah Arendt
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes… — David Mamet
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its… — Grover Cleveland
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless… — Samuel J. Tilden
According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for… — John Dye
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to… — John Berger
Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just… — Eric A. Meyer
A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only… — Gerald Asher
Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just… — Janet Schwegel
In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ...… — James A. Garfield
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to… — James Madison
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as… — Corliss Lamont
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions,… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it,… — Gianfranco Frattini
We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment,… — Peter London
The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference… — Plato
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization… — Franz Joseph Gall

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