Quotes with function

Quotes 21 till 40 of 117.

  • Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Cal Thomas Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Arthur Laffer I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next?
    A Personal History (1983) p. 301
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Bobby Davro If I don't get eight hours, I can't function, so I'm a great believer in power naps.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Jay Levinson If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.
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  • Ernst Fischer In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
    Ernst Fischer
    Austrian journalist, writer and politician (1899 - 1972)
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  • C. S. Lewis In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
    The Abolition of Man (1943)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Michel Foucault In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Carlos Ghosn In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that function in unison.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Barney Frank In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
    Frank in an op-ed piece A (sub)prime argument for more regulation in W:Financial Times (August 2007)
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Murray Kempton It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
    Murray Kempton
    American journalist
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  • Robert H. Jackson It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
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