Quotes with function

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  • Barnett Newman It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Anais Nin It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Bellamy Young Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and substance.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • Ezra Pound Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Dewar Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
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  • Lord Thomas Dewar Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
    Lord Thomas Dewar
    Scottish businessman (1864 - 1930)
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  • Emma Goldman Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bram Cohen My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Ang Lee My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bernadette Devlin My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Robert Warshow Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.
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  • Arnold Bennett Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Bee Wilson One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bill Drayton Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Stephen R. Covey Priority is a function of context.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Camille Paglia Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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