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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. — Kevin Kelly

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive. — Ivor A. Richards

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude. — C.S. Lewis

When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate. — David Harvey

God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body. — David Novak

And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source. — Seneca.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions. — Tim Roth

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things. — Rex Stout

I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.) — Adrian Lamo

We goan start promptly at seven o'clock, so be sure to take care of all your bodily needs and functions before we get started. — Charmaine T. Davis

I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. — George Washington

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done. — Jacques Barzun

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love. — E. M. Forster

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance. — Arthur Capper

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. — Mark Twain

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

Faith: a device of the mind, fed by the soul, that functions like crutches to a man in a wheelchair. — Jarod Kintz

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle. — Herbie Hancock

Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization. — Brian Tracy

A man's spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego. — Ayn Rand

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists. — Michael Parenti

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

Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet. — R. Buckminster Fuller

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. — Patricia Highsmith

I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy. — Taraji P. Henson

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones. — Michael Bennet

One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God. — C. G. Jung

As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions. — Idries Shah

Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group. — Will Durant

It's nice to play someone who functions in a very different way than I do. — Devin Kelley

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions. — Thomas Jefferson

I wish functions of MS Office suite worked on Life, and things were as simple as pressing "Ctrl + Z" to undo the accident that changed everything — Rajat Mishra

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world. — Margaret Mitchell

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. — Margaret Thatcher

Snark functions as a device to punish human spontaneity, eccentricity, nonconformity, and simple error. Everyone is being snarked into line, — Ryan Holiday

Higher-order functions allow us to abstract over actions, not just values. — Marijn Haverbeke

We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions. — Hugh Herr

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army. — Neil Peart

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. — Angela Davis

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. — William Weld

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga. — Jaggi Vasudev

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal. — Michael Novak

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. — John Henry Newman

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better. — Lewis Thomas

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions. — Morrissey

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide. — Winfried Vahland

Man has to pick up his functions as he goes along. — E. M. Forster

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit. — Mary Ellen Mark

What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hiding is how she functions. I wish she wouldn't hide, but I'm in no position to judge. I've been hiding from myself for months. — Kim Holden

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it. — Henry Cloud

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message. — Karen Thompson Walker

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead ... to produce future. — Francois Jacob

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. — Lewis Mumford

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions ... — Sheila Ballantyne

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty. — Naomi Klein

What we think, do, and pay attention to changes the structure and functions of our brains! — Chade-Meng Tan

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense. — Neil Postman

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson

Most people who shop for OSes (if they bother to shop at all) are comparing not the underlying functions but the superficial look and feel. — Anonymous

We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful yet we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most: the way our mind functions. — Matthieu Ricard

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures. — Anonymous

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. — Havelock Ellis

I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything. — Will Advise

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. — Alvar Aalto

Understanding your own anatomy and how it functions is crucial to changing your thinking and changing your life. — Toni Sorenson

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions. — Josef Albers

The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain. — Jay Parini

Sometimes you have to rely on sex and bodily functions. — Larry David

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions. — Jaggi Vasudev

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people. — Michel Foucault

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air. — Frank Zappa

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

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays. — Len Cariou

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale. — Anil Kapoor

Animals have two vital functions in today's society; to be delicious and to fit well. — Greg Proops

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this! — Jacques Lacan

One of the functions of all my novels is to prove that the novel in general does not exist. — Vladimir Nabokov

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. — Jacki Weaver

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. — Ambrose Bierce

To me, such functions are like supermarket openings. — Norton Simon

That's why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions. — Cassandra Clare

Functions that create values are easier to combine in new ways than functions that directly perform side effects — Marijn Haverbeke

The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play. — Margaret Chan

I find it gross to talk about bodily functions like shitting or farting or your period, if you're a girl, unless it's extremely necessary. — Riley Keough

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone. — Janine Benyus

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it. — John Steinbeck

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites. — Robert Cailliau

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. — Doug Larson

...you hold a poem
that functions half as personal
note and half as telescope
to the heights
awaiting us all. — Kristen Henderson

The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal. — Ernest Becker