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Function Quotes

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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
Aristotle

Contentment is an attribute of the spirit...not reliant on one's financial position.
Authors on Function Quotes: Joseph Campbell Ursula K. Le Guin Rajneesh Emile M. Cioran Benito Mussolini Angela Davis William S. Burroughs Tom Robbins Peggy Noonan Peter Drucker Ralph Waldo Emerson Stephen Covey Patton Oswalt Hans Hofmann Mahatma Gandhi Saint Augustine John Dewey Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Carl Jung Ronald Reagan Havelock Ellis Henri Poincare Ira Flatow Elliott Erwitt Henry Rollins Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Maxim Gorky Tom DeMarco Farley Mowat Plato Greg Iles Cleve Jones John Stott
2.
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
Hippocrates

Upholding and enhancing health must be prioritized above remedying it when impaired.
3.
Form does not necessarily follow function
Antonio Gaudi

'Appearance does not always indicate utility.'
4.
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
Amedeo Modigliani

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All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
Antonio Gramsci

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We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
Enoch Powell

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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 of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Angela Davis

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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
Pierre Bourdieu

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The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Thomas Beecham

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When you function in love, your inside creates your outside. When you function in fear, your outside creates your inside.
Drunvalo Melchizedek

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I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
Ronald Reagan

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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
Wilhelm II

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Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.
Vanna Bonta

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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
Alfred Hitchcock

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The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
Jacques Lacan

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Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.
Albert Einstein

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When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.
Gabrielle Bernstein

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If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

22.
Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.
Michael Gerber

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We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.
Rudolf Bing

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There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.
Murray Bookchin

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I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
Walt Disney

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Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.
Claudia Cardinale

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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
Johan Huizinga

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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
Joseph Campbell

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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Tadao Ando

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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
Alan Perlis

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The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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The form follows the function.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
Morrie Schwartz

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If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.
Brian Wilson

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How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
Beatrice Sparks

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Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
Denise Levertov

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To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
G. Campbell Morgan

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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it
Jean-Francois Lyotard

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The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.
H. R. Giger

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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
Plato

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One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
Francois Jacob

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The function of pop music is to be consumed.
Pierre Boulez

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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves

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To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.
Hiroshi Sugimoto

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

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The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
Tariq Ali

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employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.
John Kennedy Toole

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It is not music's function to express rational necessities.
Artur Schnabel

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It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.
Frederic Bastiat

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Faith is a function of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi