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22 quotesIf you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
Improvement
Arthur Bloch
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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Colleges and Universities
Allan Bloom
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Age and Aging
Rita Mae Brown
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A functioning police state needs no police.
Police
William S. Burroughs
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Priority is a function of context.
Priorities
Stephen R. Covey
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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Mind
Thomas Robert Dewar
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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
Business
Peter F. Drucker
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Arts and Artists
Max Eastman
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
Mind
Thomas A. Edison
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Punishment
Michel Foucault
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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
Fertility
Germaine Greer
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To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Life and Living
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Government
Murray Kempton
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Body
George Santayana
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Generosity
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.
Leaders and Leadership
James Schorr
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The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.
Men
Valerie Solanis
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Form ever follows function.
Architecture
Louis Henry Sullivan
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The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Past
Dylan Thomas
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There is no such thing as a functional illiterate.
Illiteracy
Kelvin Throop III
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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.
Mind
Source Unknown
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
Success
An Wang
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun