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• We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the whole train. The ego functions like an engine and there are many many compartments following it. Once the ego dies the whole train stops.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Hatred, Greed

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• Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Beautiful, Art, Science

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• It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

  Raymond Loewy

  Science, Simplicity, Might

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• No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.

  Joseph Paxton

  Nature, Science, Animal

  Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.1

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• Marketing is not only much broader than selling, it is not a specialized activity at all. It encompasses the entire business. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Views, Marketing

  "The Practice of Management".

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• Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for companies

  Jim Speros

  Business, Creative, Marketing

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• If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!

  Jules Henry

  Children, Business, Parent

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• Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Business, Creativity

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.67, Routledge

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• We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Dancing, Looks

  "The American Dance" (1935)

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• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Education, School, Emotional

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• Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Thinking

  "Minority Report".

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• The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Motivational, Education, Being Yourself

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.112, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Education, Children, Mean

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• Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

  Jane Addams

  Fear, Government, Self

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• This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

  Tacitus

  History, Evil, Deeds

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.25, Modern Library

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• The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Past, Keys, History

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• What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

  Adam Garfinkle

  Past, History, Curious

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• A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Hope, Teaching

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• The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.

  Stuart Wilde

  Humor, Deep Thought, Use

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• Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
  Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.

  Octavia Butler

  Mean, Civilization, Intelligence

  Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists... and I never stopped asking questions.

  Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

  Education, Children, School

  Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1998). “The Camel's Nose: Memoirs Of A Curious Scientist”, p.3, Island Press

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• All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Educational, School

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple does not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.

  Gay Hendricks

  Marriage, Couple, Creative

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• It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Inspiration, Parenting

  Herbert Spencer (1866). “Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical”, p.178

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• All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American kids going to bed with no math at all.

  Michael Cunningham

  Children, Kids, Math

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