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Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair. — Judith Light

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

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish. — Quentin Crisp

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue. — H.L. Mencken

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. — Steve Martin

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends. — A.P.

Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing. — David Rabe

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will. — James Vincent McMorrow

To Walk In Direction Is A Function That The Director Is Aware — Sunday Adelaja

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. — Frank Lloyd Wright

There is no such thing as divine law enforced by mankind. Cosmic laws are self-sustaining mechanisms that do not require our assistance to function. — Anita B. Sulser PhD

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. — Blaise Pascal

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial. — Bassem Youssef

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists. — Justin Torres

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack. — Joseph Rotblat

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane. — Eckhart Tolle

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives. — Nancy Pearcey

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian. — Fulton J. Sheen

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true. — Patti Smith

My wife always says that I function better up on a big wall than I do anywhere else in life. — Tommy Caldwell

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward. — Adam Johnson

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function. — Patricia Churchland

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function. — Moshe Safdie

The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork. — Usama Fayyad

The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions. — Brian Solis

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success. — Jacob Needleman

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain. — Shelby Harris

Companies increasingly find that their economic value is a function of the strength of the habits they create. In — Nir Eyal

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson

God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function. — Robert Novak

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function. — Robin Day

Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather. — Alber Elbaz

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. — Robert Smithson

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy. — David Harsanyi

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. — George Bernard Shaw

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function. — A.W. Tozer

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil. — Chester W. Nimitz

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself. — Neil Postman

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. — Angela Davis

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

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. — Dick Cavett

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives. — Nicholas Sparks

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function. — Giannina Braschi

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. — Constantin Brancusi

There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them. — Billy Graham

Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us. — Helene Cixous

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. — Tom Robbins

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life. — Etgar Keret

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative? — Francois Le Lionnais

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function. — Judy Woodruff

People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door. — Mal Fletcher

Some spent so long outside of their own heads that they couldn't function right when they finally had to return their own. — Alexandra Bracken

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function. — Dave Holland

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites. — Robert Graves

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive. — Paul Samuelson

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world. — Eckhart Tolle

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in. — Dan Ariely

One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function. — Paul Beatty

Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it. — Harry Vardon

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure. — Wolfgang Tillmans

There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me. — Iggy Azalea

I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood ... — Yves Klein

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable. — Margaret J. Wheatley

A bot had to find his own way, and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless." - Mack Megaton — A. Lee Martinez

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. — Roman Jakobson

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. — Wendell Willkie

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive — John F. Kennedy

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul. — Aristotle.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function. — Noah Baumbach

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. — Susan Neiman

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data. — Glenn Greenwald

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip. — Dan Quayle

(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint. — Robert Rauschenberg

There's no other product that changes function like the computer. — Jonathan Ive

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world. — Floyd Skloot

A mind can be lost without its owner's death. A mind that no longer questions only fulfills the rudimentary aspects of its function. — Josh Hanagarne

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. — Andy Goldsworthy

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired. — Hippocrates

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. — David McCullough

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs? — Louis O. Kelso

That's the function of big brothers ... to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that's the thing - you're a couple, and couples can't function without trust. — Nicholas Sparks

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself. — Mike Figgis

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them. — Dennis Kucinich

Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action. — Moshe Feldenkrais

A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others. — Ryan Holiday

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian

You'd be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look — T.D. Jakes

It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so. — C.D. Wright

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future. — Benjamin Graham

And part of the problem is that phone. You have that function on that fucking phone that enables you to know when your texts are opened and ignored. — Caroline Kepnes

Time was the lubricant that allowed the mechanism of the universe to function smoothly. — Dean Koontz

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt. — Wolfgang Schauble

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory. — Thomas Jefferson

Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors. — Robert A. Caro

Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human. — Michel Faber