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• Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

  Wally Amos

  Understanding, Language, Computer

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• So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Running, Responsibility, Wells

  "Mr. Jackson is the Deputy Secretary for Department of Housing and Urban Development". "The Business of Government Hour" interview, www.businessofgovernment.org. May 19, 2003.

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• The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.

  Mark Slouka

  Humanity, Population, Proportion

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• I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.

  Arthur Laffer

  Stress, Mean, Government

  "Economic Debate: Laffer vs. Liesman". "The Kudlow Report" Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. February 26, 2009.

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• A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

  Roy H. Williams

  Sight, Bridges, Sound

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• The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Boredom, Release, Existence

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• Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Art, Healing, School

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• The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Offending, Healthy, Principles

  Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.65, Health Research Books

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• I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.

  Thomas Boswell

  Senior, Baseball, Children

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• Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Thinking, Cognition

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• It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

  Saint Augustine

  Perfection, Imperfection, Knows

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• The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.

  H. R. Giger

  Building, Integrated, Creatures

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• The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.

  Arshile Gorky

  Dream, Art, Eye

  "Abstract Expressionism" by Barbara Hess (p.10), 2005.

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• Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not
  the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Art, Believe, Struggle

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• Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

  Harry Vardon

  Sports, Praise, Partners

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• I function better when my back is to the wall.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Wall, Motivation, Fighter

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• It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Children, Interesting, Trying

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• Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years. Remarkably we are even quite closely related to fruit and vegetables. About half the chemical functions that take place in a banana are fundamentally the same as the chemical functions that place in you. It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will ever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is.

  Bill Bryson

  Years, Vegetables, Profound

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• So here are some foolproof recipes for those of you who understand the true function of food.
  Bean Treat: Gingerly pour four fluid oz of beans or something into a jug. Cry. Eat the beans from the jug and pour the rest from the can down your throat. N.B. These taste better if they belong to somebody else in your house.
  Pain au Dunk: Fists of bread, rent from the loaf and dunked into anything runnier than bread. Should eat at least six of these because…you should. Don’t toast the bread. Toast is cookery.

  Dylan Moran

  Pain, House, Four

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• All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.

  Peter Singer

  Religious, Sex, Lying

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• And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

  Black Thought

  Weed, Rap, Smoking

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• Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Organization, People

  "One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy". Book by Thomas Frank, 2000.

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• The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It is by this means that it maintains liberty of expression, security of person and property, genuine freedom of contract, the rights of public meeting and association, and finally its own power to carry out common objects undefeated by the recalcitrance of individual members.

  Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

  Mean, Rights, Expression

  Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1964). “Liberalism”, p.78, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

  John Wooden

  Fun, Athlete, Goal

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a professional unit, the specialist function of a limited number of men, war remained a relatively harmless contest for power. But once it became everyman's duty to defend his home (or his political “rights”) warfare was free to range wherever that home might be, and to attack every form of life and property associated with that home.

  Herbert Read

  Military, War, Home

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