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Herb Alpert He has a method that likens...
Tadao Ando There is a role and function...
Louis Aragon The function of genius is to...
Rudolf Arnheim Furthermore, order is a necessary...
Gaston Bachelard The great function of poetry...
James A. Baldwin Every legend, moreover, contains its...
Margaret Fairless Barber To look backward for a while...
Joel A. Barker The ultimate function of prophecy...
Dave Barry Scientists now believe that the...
Charles Baudelaire Who would dare assign to art...
Xavier Becerra Twenty million more have Chronic...
Michael Behe By irreducibly complex I mean...
Michael Behe In Darwin's time all of...
Michael Behe In order to say that some...
Michael Behe Since natural selection requires a...
Clive Bell I will try to account for...
Peter Benenson It's the publicity function of...
Arnold Bennett Of all the inhabitants of the...
Paul Berg That work led to the emergence...
Ben Bernanke I assure this committee that...
Daniel J. Bernstein The most important function of...
Rudolf Bing We are similar to a museum...
Allan Bloom The most important function of...
Lindy Boggs As a public official and being...
David Bohm A corporation is organized as...
David Bohm This kind of overall way of...
Corrie Ten Boom Forgiveness is an act of the...
Robert Bork The notion that Congress can...
Paul D. Boyer If our society continues to...
Louis D. Brandeis Fear of serious injury alone...
David Brinkley The one function that TV news...
Rita Mae Brown I believe the true function of...
Rita Mae Brown Recognition of function always precedes...
Robert Brustein The primary function of a...
Kenneth Burke Men seek for vocabularies that...
William S. Burroughs Happiness is a byproduct of...
William Burroughs Virtue is simply happiness, and...
Samuel Butler The function of vice is to...
Samuel Butler It is the function of vice...
Rocco Buttiglione The family has a social...
James F. Byrnes The carrying out of the...
Neve Campbell Ballet is completely unnatural to...
Richard Carlson The ill effects of thought...
Stokely Carmichael Seems to me that the...
Stokely Carmichael The secret of life is to...
Jonathan Carroll Women are always complaining about...
Carol P. Christ The often cruel behavior of...
Winston Churchill Criticism may not be agreeable...
Marcus Tullius Cicero The function of wisdom is to...
Emile M. Cioran Tolerance - the function of an...
Bram Cohen My father taught me Basic and...
James S. Coleman A child's learning is a...
Cyril Connolly The true function of a writer...
Cyril Connolly Today the function of the...
Cyril Connolly The more books we read, the...
Charles Horton Cooley Institutions - government, churches, industries, and...
Nicolaus Copernicus Although all the good arts...
Le Corbusier To create architecture is to...
Phil Crane I certainly respect privacy and...
Robin Day I think the first things that...
Bernadette Devlin My function in life is not...
Thomas R. Dewar Minds are like parachutes - they...
James Dewar Minds are like parachutes, they...
John Drinkwater To take an analogy: if we...
Karen Duffy The lesion is in the area...
George Dzundza The writers are writing human...
Max Eastman The defining function of the...
Charles Eastman That is, we believed, the...
Thomas A. Edison The chief function of the body...
George Eliot I should like to know what...
Brian Eno I had a lot of trouble...
R. Lee Ermey When you try to find funding...
Siobhan Fahey When do you know you're insane...
Ernst Fischer In a decaying society, art, if...
F. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first-rate...
F. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first rate...
E. M. Forster To make us feel small in...
Michel Foucault In its function, the power to...
Barney Frank The regulation of medicine has...
Lucian Freud The model should only serve...
Anna Friel Being a mother gives you an...
J. William Fulbright There has been a strong...
James W. Fulbright There has been a strong...
Margaret Fuller The especial genius of women I...
John Kenneth Galbraith The only function of economic...
Garet Garrett It is the function of the...
Emma Goldman Morality and its victim, the...
Andy Goldsworthy A snowball is simple, direct...
Norman Granz My function at Verve was that...
Michael Graves In any architecture, there is...
Asa Gray The former conviction that these...
John Grierson My view... would be that we...
Stanislav Grof The function of the brain is...
Stanislav Grof If consciousness can function independently...
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi So I set out to study...
Jurgen Habermas Osama bin Laden, the person...
Dag Hammarskjold If even dying is to be...
Thomas Harrison To liberate words means first...
Owen Hart I had a very bad torn...
Howard Hawks I'm a storyteller - that's the...
Marilu Henner Healthful whole foods improve our...
Sidney Hillman I even believe in helping an...
Johan Huizinga Play is a uniquely adaptive...
Isabelle Huppert I don't know if you ever...
John Hutton Our aim, during our Presidency...
Thomas Huxley Science has fulfilled her function...
Muhammad Iqbal Indeed, in view of its...
Robert Jackson It is not the function of...
Jeffrey Jones My job is to help the...
June Jordan The first function of poetry...
Kingman Brewster, Jr. The function of a briefing...
Barber B. Conable, Jr. I don't think it's the...
Martin Luther King, Jr. The function of education is...
Rosabeth Moss Kanter Companies used to be able to...
Walter Kaufmann The first function of a book...
Garrison Keillor Cats are intended to teach us...
Murray Kempton It is function of government...
Stan Kenton Whenever you play dance music...
Soren Kierkegaard The function of prayer is not...
Ted Koppel My function is, as objectively...
Jacques Lacan The Mirror Stage as formative...
Ricardo Lagos We Chileans have to be able...
Christian L. Lange Militarism is basically a way...
David Herbert Lawrence Never trust the artist. Trust...
David Herbert Lawrence The essential function of art...
Bruce Lee Ever since I was a child...
Ang Lee My first instinct was to cast...
Jim Lehrer Best I can do for them...
James Levine It's just that, when the...
George H. Lewes The true function of philosophy...
A. J. Liebling The function of the press in...
Judith Light Yet I've discovered that how I...
Jack London The proper function of man is...
Adolf Loos Does it follow that the house...
Lydia Lunch The female format is a...
Jean-Francois Lyotard What guides Marxism, then, is...
Norman Mailer The function of socialism is...
Ernest Mandel Workers do not strike every...
William Masters Sex is a natural function. You...
David C. McCullough A nation that forgets its past...
H. L. Mencken I write in order to attain...
Dmitri Mendeleev It is the function of science...
Ralph Merkle Machines built by human beings...
Ralph Merkle Lighter computers and lighter sensors...
Pat Metheny I don't know if I would...
Merton Miller So everybody has some information...
Luc Montagnier Psychological factors are critical in...
Jamie Muir He was very much concerned...
Lewis Mumford The chief function of the city...
Benito Mussolini The function of a citizen and...
Ralph Nader The function of leadership is...
Ralph Nader I start with the premise that...
John George Nicolay The function of the politician...
Friedrich Nietzsche All things are subject to...
Anais Nin It is the function of art...
Donald Norman I believe that the Apple...
Larry Norman I know I stand visibly onstage...
Frank Norris The function of the novelist...
John O'Toole There is no way for the...
Marie Osmond I didn't know my mother had...
Adnan Pachachi Until and unless we could...
C. Northcote Parkinson The smaller the function, the...
Blaise Pascal The supreme function of reason...
Charles W. Pickering If a catastrophic event wipes...
Frank Pittman No one, however powerful and...
Dana Plato I'm learning to play by the...
William Plomer It is the function of creative...
Jules H. Poincare In the old days when people...
Frederick Pollock The lawyer has not reached the...
Ezra Pound Literature does not exist in a...
Suzi Quatro The bass player's function, along...
Ayn Rand Individual rights are not subject...
Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to...
Robert Rauschenberg There was a whole language...
John Rawls In constant pursuit of money...
Herbert Read It does not seem that the...
Herbert Read These groups within a society...
Marc Ribot Jazz is a music of great...
Tony Robbins What we can or cannot do...
Tom Robbins The highest function of love...
David Rockefeller I suspect that many corporations...
Ida P. Rolf Form and function are a unity...
Hugh Trevor-Roper The function of a genius is...
Joseph Rotblat This means that the only...
George Santayana Advertising is the modern substitute...
George Santayana The body is an instrument, the...
Thomas J. Sargent In the 1980s, there were...
Thomas J. Sargent The first and most optimistic...
Jean-Paul Sartre The poor don't know that their...
Marilyn vos Savant Know the function of a fuse...
Mary Schmich The movies we love and admire...
Bobby Scott Today, education is perhaps the...
Michael Servetus No one with a body full...
Beverly Sills A primary function of art and...
Herbert Simon The engineer, and more generally...
Joey Skaggs We function in a pack...
Louise Slaughter This House cannot function without...
Robert Paul Smith B is for Breasts Of which...
Robert Smithson Banal words function as a...
Susan Sontag The aim of all commentary on...
Thomas Sowell Both free speech rights and...
Arlen Spector But one way or another, judges...
Gerry Spence Government is operated by deeply...
Gerry Spence The function of the law is...
Anne Stevenson I dislike literary jargon and...
Louis Sullivan Form follows function.
Edward Lawrie Tatum As has repeatedly been stated...
Randall Terry America should function as a...
Dylan Thomas The function of posterity is...
Cal Thomas Government has a legitimate function...
Edward Thorndike The function of intellect is...
Michael Tippett My true function within a...
Alvin Toffler The next major explosion is...
Pete Townshend What the Who is all about...
Lionel Trilling The function of literature, through...
Benjamin Tucker But which is the State's...
Benjamin Tucker Defence was an afterthought, prompted...
Benjamin Tucker Socialism, on the contrary, extends...
Leonardo da Vinci The function of muscle is to...
Alfred Russel Wallace To say that mind is a...
An Wang Success is more a function of...
Wim Wenders Maybe it's the music that...
Morris West If God be God and man...
Margaret J. Wheatley In virtually every organization, regardless...
Margaret J. Wheatley Destroying is a necessary function...
Wendell Willkie The defense of our democracy...
Robert Anton Wilson The function of Theology? The...
James Q. Wilson I mean that the function of...
Carter G. Woodson Negro banks, as a rule, have...
Frank Lloyd Wright Form follows function - that has...
Gary Wright Music's staying power is a...
Lin Yutang This I conceive to be the...



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