Aristotle
Philosopher
"Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances."
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Function
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Hippocrates
Physician
"The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls."
Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women."
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it."
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"Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time."
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"Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions."
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"When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in."
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"I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream."
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"It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience."
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"If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life."
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"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."
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"The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality."
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". . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind."
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"The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression."
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"Faith is a function of the heart."
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"One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God."
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"The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point."
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"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception"
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"Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business."
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"I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill."
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"The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle."
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"The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful."
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"We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions."
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