Functions Quotes
475 quotes by 414 authors
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Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the…
— Marvin Dunnette
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When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned…
— Marcus Borg
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Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims…
— Abul A'la Maududi
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Each temple building is an inspiration, magnificent and beautiful in every way, but the temple building alone does not bless. The endowed blessings and divine…
— James E. Faust
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That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside…
— Stephen Covey
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Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral…
— Carl Jung
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the…
— Ayn Rand
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If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant,…
— Norbert Wiener
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Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion…
— Federico Fellini
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Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.
— Brian Tracy
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I consider that all Jews in the Diaspora, and thus it is true in France, should everywhere they can lend their support to Israel. This…
— Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.…
— Ellen Lupton
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Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.…
— Robert Graves
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In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
— James Q. Wilson
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