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• A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win.

  Pete Carril

  Jobs, Team, Winning

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.25, U of Nebraska Press

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• Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

  R. D. Laing

  Self, Way, Behavior

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.

  Edward Lawrie Tatum

  Numbers, Enzymes, Genes

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• Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Successful, Class, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

  Rob Pike

  Names, Return, Should

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• The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center. They should function not merely as another form of entertainment but, rather, should contribute significantly to our well being and happiness.

  John D. Rockefeller III

  Art, Entertainment, Daily Life

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• When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.

  Ken Knabb

  Cogs, Machines, Wonder

  Ken Knabb (1997). “Public Secrets”

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• How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Light, Air, Water

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• I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?

  Chris Marker

  Memories, Opposites, Trying

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "Sans Soleil", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

  John Burdett

  Mind, World, Body

  John Burdett (2012). “Bangkok Haunts”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  Esther Perel

  Religious, Art, Sex

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• The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.

  Hugh Jackman

  Reality, Wave, Whole

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• Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must be that way, for God's glory and kingdom. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.

  Henry Blackaby

  Answers, World, Want

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• If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.

  Henry Blackaby

  Spirit, Glory, Ability

  Henry Blackaby, Mel Blackaby (2009). “Experiencing the Spirit: The Power of Pentecost Every Day”, p.10, Multnomah

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• If you don’t believe in your product, or if you’re not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Believe, Odds, Marketing

  Jay Conrad Levinson, Seth Godin (1994). “The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Intelligent, Phones, Facts

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• Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the same as a bow to the other whether to dine out rather than in, or which one gets massaged that evening with oil of calendula; there are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Couple, Mean, Dark

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• Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

  Carl Magnusson

  Design, Definitions, Logic

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• Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Light, Perfection

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• Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake.

  Bill Hicks

  Mistake, Marijuana, Law

  "Chicago '91". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1991.

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• Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.

  Julius Evola

  Citizens, Facts, Dignity

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• Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles.
  
  These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Europe, Ideas

  Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.23, Random House

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• Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

  John Stott

  Grace, Offers

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

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• Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

  Darryl Anka

  Art, Mirrors, Pieces

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• When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.

  Bernie Siegel

  Gratitude, Blessed, Grateful

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