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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.
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.'
5.
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
Antonio Gramsci
6.
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
7.
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
8.
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
Enoch Powell
9.
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
10.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Angela Davis
11.
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
Pierre Bourdieu
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I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
Ronald Reagan
13.
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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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
Wilhelm II
16.
Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.
Vanna Bonta
17.
Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.
Albert Einstein
18.
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
Alfred Hitchcock
19.
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
Jacques Lacan
20.
When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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
23.
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.
Rudolf Bing
24.
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
25.
I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
Walt Disney
26.
Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.
Claudia Cardinale
27.
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
29.
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
Alan Perlis
30.
The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
31.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Tadao Ando
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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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After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
Morrie Schwartz
35.
Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
Denise Levertov
36.
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
37.
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
38.
To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
G. Campbell Morgan
39.
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
40.
The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
Plato
41.
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
Francois Jacob
43.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
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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
46.
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
Tariq Ali
47.
It is not music's function to express rational necessities.
Artur Schnabel
49.
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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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