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• The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function. — Aristotle
• Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of… — Plato
• The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only… — Frederic Bastiat
• I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to… — George Eliot
• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who… — D. H. Lawrence
• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.… — Jack London
• The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to… — Daniel Webster

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