414 Function Quotes for You to Enjoy

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity. Pope Benedict XVI

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If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. Stanislav Grof

Death Independently Able Could Lifetime Same After Body Function Consciousness

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several. Alastair Reynolds

Morning Coffee Several Morning Person Had Until Person Function

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. Alvin Toffler

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Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone. Donella Meadows

Alone Needs Nature National Few Preserving Rangers Gene Properly More Park Parks Maintain Maintained Protecting Without However Left Itself Than National Parks Human Expense Banks Room Function Species Biodiversity Zoo

Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform. Eugene Kennedy

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The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. Indra Nooyi

Leadership You Business Organization Leader One Thing Various Vastly Leading Demands Learned Were Up Vertically Move Different The One Thing CEO Certain Requirements Exponentially Function Grow Thing Levels

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. Jean-Paul Sartre

Life Finance Our Generosity Know Exercise Poor Function

My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest. Jeff Sessions

Sacrifice National Constituents Entity Remains Demand National Interest Interest Function Belief

I'm not in the clubs; I'm a homebody. I go out when I feel I have to for work or if there's a special function. You might catch me at the grocery store, but you won't see me out and about in Atlanta. Keith Sweat

Work Me You Out Atlanta See About Catch Feel Go Store Clubs Might Grocery Grocery Store Special Homebody Function

Policing is an integral part of governance. It is a whole, but it is also a part of the larger whole. Just like a human organ like the head, it's got intelligence, stamina, strategy and surveillance. But it cannot function independently in the absence of other life-sustaining organs. Kiran Bedi

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. Lewis Mumford

Art Culture Creativity Matter Power Energy Living City Dead Chief Form Reproduction Convert Social Function Biological Symbols

There are those airports which make you feel better, and there are those airports that, when you go there, your heart sinks: you can't wait to get out of there. They both function as airports, but it's the things that you can't measure that make them different. Norman Foster

You Heart Better Wait Those Airport Out Both Feel Make Go Get Different Which Them Your Measure Function Things

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. Robert Anton Wilson

Recitation Pockets Pick Unspeakable Theology Function Incomprehensible

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free. Stan Kenton

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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. William S. Burroughs

Happiness You Happy Virtue Simply Function By-Product

Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain. Aditi Shankardass

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Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch. Al-Waleed bin Talal

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The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.' Alain de Botton

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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed. Albert Murray

Nature Progress Jazz Musicianship Must Composer Be Prepared Written Simply Performer Execute Truly Score Contribute Expected Improvisational Orchestration Who Rehearsed Prepared Function Competent

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