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"To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call."
"I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions."
"What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do."
"I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?"
"If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary."
"...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move."
"Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It)"
"Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge."
"I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate."
"One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there."
"A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system."
"You can still function as a living ruin."
"And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function."
"Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive"
"The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself."
"The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable."
"You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things."
"The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before."
