Function Quotes - Page 10

• Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

  Daniel Amen

  Health, Sleep, Night

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• The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which is in fact routine - it's passed every year - which allows the government to borrow money, otherwise it can't function. If Congress does not approve this budget request, the government may have to default.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Real, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's not an op-ed.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.

  Tariq Ali

  People, Forever, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Fasting, Lamps

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus for financial capitalism and to ease the road for that capitalism. The other functions just irritate everyone: it's undemocratic; decisions are not made by parliament; the European Parliament is not sovereign.

  Tariq Ali

  Decision, Political, Ease

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge, a ruler of a community, the King of Medina and later of Arabia, and all of these were combined in him and his destiny, the reason God brought him on earth, was to show how each of the functions which human beings have in life have the perfect form in the prophet.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Kings, Father, Army

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories - though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can't really function well if all you're eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.

  Lori Silverbush

  Country, People, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States. We did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Thinking, Long

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. If you're going to read a quick mystery novel to keep you amused while you're traveling, it's fine.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Mystery Novels, Updates

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If the economy of a country collapses completely and the hospitals are no longer able to function as hospitals, it will be very difficult to tell every doctor to stay home to work without drugs, to work without equipment. You might tell some to stay but there a lot of young people who are at the beginning of their careers who would be very difficult to persuade.

  Chinua Achebe

  Country, Home, Doctors

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• We're either awake or we're sleeping. During the time that we're awake, we work very hard at denying things, mainly because we have to function as people. We have to control and repress everything that we're fearful of, because it doesn't make sense to go crazy on the streets, but in reality we hide and we hide, repress and repress, our fears of the world of violence, of separation, of death, and sometimes hopes, and some things that are very joyful, reunions or all of those good things. It's only in dreams that we're really truthful with whatever hurts most; they're really very real.

  Shirin Neshat

  Dream, Hurt, Crazy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a visceral level, I'm very intellectually and emotionally attracted to acknowledging how space functions in our lives, both in terms of pleasure and in terms of control, and in terms of all those factors that form a life. I'm also very anxious and maybe repulsed by how superficial that whole dialogue can become.

  Tom Burr

  Thinking, Space, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

  Elaine Equi

  Needs, Machines

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.

  Paul Saffo

  Thinking, Tools, Information

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Destiny, Luxury

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

  Michelle Alexander

  Bird, Wire, Bars

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Life, Jobs, People

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• Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Cat, Psychics

  William S Burroughs (2012). “The Cat Inside”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Humanity, Secret

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Believe, Moving

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• Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

  Dave Barry

  Government, Politics, Entertainment

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

  Stanislav Grof

  Body, Able, Consciousness

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.234, SUNY Press

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