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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.
Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all.
That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.
The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning.
Unless we citizens speak out, unless we are vigilant, democracy cannot fully function.
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.
I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.
Judaism is a brilliant religion, and the main function of Judaism is to learn and read.
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.
To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.
The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.
It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.
[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.
The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.
The crux of our power isn't only in our voice. It is in our economic function in society.
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
In any complex organism, brain formation and function must be controlled in part by genes.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.
Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.
One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.
I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.
My wife always says that I function better up on a big wall than I do anywhere else in life.
How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.