Quotes with function

Quotes 101 till 117 of 117.

  • Joel A. Barker The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
    Joel A. Barker
    American businessman
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  • Bernie Sanders There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Toni Morrison There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Buzz Aldrin To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bobby Scott Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Lee True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • William S. Burroughs Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Martha Graham We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • Anthony Robbins What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Benito Mussolini [To a railway stationmaster:] We must leave exactly on time.... From now on everything must function to perfection.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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