| "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 |
| "Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "Form follows function." »Louis Henri Sullivan |
| "There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function." »Georges Clemenceau |
| "Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." »Lester R Bittel |
| "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." »Unknown |
| "The proper function of man is to live - not to exist." »Jack London |
| "The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." »Max Eastman |
| "The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life." »W. Edward Brown |
| "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer |
| "If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent." »Henry Commager |
| "Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better." »George Santayana |
| "The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation." »George Santayana |
| "This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought." »Lin Yutang |
| "Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated." »Miguel de Unamuno |
| "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." »Ralph Nader |
| "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 |
| "To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward." »Margaret Fairless Barber |
| "The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency." »Margaret Fuller |
| "There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope." »Pete Holiday |
| "Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large." »Eloise Salholz |
| "The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money." »A. J. Liebling |
| "The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were." »David Brinkley |
| "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." »F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| "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 De Voto |
| "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." »F Scott |
| "The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." »Grayson Kirk |
| "Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience." »Johann Huizinga |
| "The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all." »Kingman Brewster, Jr. |
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