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• The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

  Edward Teller

  Race, Inability, Extinction

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• Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

  Peggy Noonan

  Imagination, Wit, Good Nature

  "What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era". Book by Peggy Noonan, 1990.

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• To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Civilization, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.159, Penguin

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• Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

  Carl Magnusson

  Inspiration, Design, Way

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• Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.

  Charles Correa

  Lying, Texture, Layers

  Charles Correa (2010). “A Place in the Shade: The New Landscape & Other Essays”, p.22, Penguin Books India

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• Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

  Michael Porter

  Risk, Management, Strategy

  Michael E. Porter (1985). “Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance”

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• I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

  Howard Hawks

  Movie, Inspiring, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.

  Ayn Rand

  Independence, Mind, Needs

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.63, Penguin

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• No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Hands, Support, Touching

  Moshé Feldenkrais, Elizabeth Beringer (2010). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshé Freldenkrais”, North Atlantic Books

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• The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Statistics, Action, Predictions

  Journal of the American Statistical Association Quoted in W.A. Wallis' The Statistical Research Group, 1942-1945 Volume 75, Number 370, June 19 (p. 321)

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• In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Effort, May, Quiet

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Effort, Doubt

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• The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.

  Ayn Rand

  Army, Government, Law

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.812, Hamilton Books

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• If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

  Norbert Wiener

  Ants, Humans, Ifs

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.52, Da Capo Press

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• Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here.

  Georg Simmel

  Fashion, Support, Feelings

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• Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Almost Perfect, Two

  Gene Wolfe (1995). “Castle of Days”, p.221, Macmillan

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• If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Government, Liberty, Democracy

  "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

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• As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken.

  Karl Mannheim

  Taken, Ideas, Long

  Karl Mannheim (2013). “Ideology and Utopia”, p.68, Routledge

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• Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.

  Federico Fellini

  Reality, Fire, Rose

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• True poetry is a function of awakening.  It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Creativity

  Gaston Bachelard (1971). “On poetic imagination and reverie: selections from the works of Gaston Bachelard”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

  Stanislav Grof

  Brain, Locks, World

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". www.maps.org. 1984.

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• The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Prayer, Reality

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

  Robert Sheckley

  Godly, Names, Should

  Robert Sheckley (2014). “Dimension of Miracles”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• And I am a weapon of massive consumption
  And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.

  Lily Allen

  Weapons, Faults, Consumption

  Song: The Fear, Album: It's Not Me, It's You, 2009

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• As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Two, Creating, Goal

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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