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Tag Name "Function" (1412)

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The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.
Alan Keyes
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Cyril Connolly
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The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for hilarious civic functions, smashing the previous record set when Baron Hans Neizant B ompzidaize was elected Landburgher of K oln in 1653.
Mike Harding
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I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
Vangelis
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
Kate Millett
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
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Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.
David
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Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.
Bo Burnham
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Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.
Adelard of Bath
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That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.
Charles Tart
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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
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Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
Kim Stanley Robinson
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The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.
John Dewey
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It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.
Robert Morrison MacIver
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It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
William Ernest Henley
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Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.
Merton Miller
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.
Tim Noakes
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Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence
Eckhart Tolle
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Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
Bernard DeVoto
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The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.
Jean Monnet
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The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.
Lydia Lunch
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......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.
Bernadette Roberts
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The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.
Konrad Lorenz
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