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Function Quote by Rex Stout

“Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.” quote by Rex Stout — Download Open image

“Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.”

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It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

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