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• The function of posterity is to look after itself.

  Dylan Thomas

  Past, Looks, Posterity

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• I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

  Larry Norman

  Writing, Unseen, Results

  Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.

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• The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Sociology, Sociological

  Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press

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• The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Social, Should

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• I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

  Phil Crane

  Rights, Government, Hands

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• 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

  Government, People, Institutions

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

  Ernest Mandel

  Capitalist Economy, Way, Impossible

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Important, Helping, Reader

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• The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

  Edward Thorndike

  Mean, May, Welfare

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.325, Routledge

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• Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.

  Robert H. Barrow

  Inspirational, Success, Military

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• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Rights, Numbers

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• The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Educational, Excellence

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• The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.

  Maurice Blondel

  Art, Men, Want

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• The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

  Katherine Sophie Dreier

  Art, Men, Vision

  Yale University. Art Gallery, Katherine Sophie Dreier (1950). “Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 [presented to Yale University]”

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• The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

  Frank Herbert

  Nature, Understanding, Environment

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Sometimes, Shock

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• The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

  Samuel Butler

  Vices, Virtue, Bounds

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.47, The Floating Press

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• Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Appearance, Boxes

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• 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.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.495, Simon and Schuster

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• Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

  William S. Burroughs

  Happiness, Virtue, Products

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• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  Tadao Ando

  Roles, Our Time

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• The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

  Allan Bloom

  Important, Age, Reason

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Business, People, Pioneers

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree

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• Form ever follows function.

  Louis Sullivan

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

  'The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered' (1896)

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