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Tag Name "Function" (1414)

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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to praise the gods and educate the youth. In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
Plutarch
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A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.
Albert Schweitzer
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
William James
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True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
William James
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
William James
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In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
Albert Einstein
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The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
Albert Einstein
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How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.
Albert Einstein
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Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization.
Robin Sharma
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I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
Francois-Henri Pinault
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Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination.
Lorraine Moller
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The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
Albert C. Barnes
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Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs
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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
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We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.
Alan Watts
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The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.
Alan Watts
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The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.
Wilhelm Reich
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Michel Foucault
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Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Alan Moore
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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.
Alan Finger
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Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.
Thomas Merton
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Form follows function straight to hell.
Alan Cooper
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