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"I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision." »Barber B. Conable, Jr
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"...it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art." »John W.N. Sullivan
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"Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one." »Charles De Gaulle
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"Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity." »Vince Lombardi
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"Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." »Saint Basil
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"Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." »Saint Basil
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"The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously." »Paul Wiener
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"Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss." »Montaigne
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"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right." »Henry Bessemer
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"From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor." »Joseph Addison
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"An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Form follows function." »Louis Henri Sullivan
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"My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred." »Albert Einstein
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"There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function." »Georges Clemenceau
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"To live is to function. That is all there is in living." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open." »Thomas Dewar
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"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." »Unknown
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"The proper function of man is to live - not to exist." »Jack London
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"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." »Lester R Bittel
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"The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.N.B. From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things come to those who wait." »Lamentations 325
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"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone." »Horace
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." »Max Eastman
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"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." »Unknown
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"The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life." »W. Edward Brown
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"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting. (on those behind the 911 attacks)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." »An Wang
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"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought." »Sir Thomas Beecham
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"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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