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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
I function properly, feel better, do better, look better, and treat others better when there's less clutter.
Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals.
New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex!
The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.
The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.
The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.
The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.
The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.
To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.
I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
The function of parliament is to hold the executive to account. We should never overlook the primacy of parliament.
Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.
The people will demand answers from all the dictators and the people who have not allowed this country to function.
The government's intention is to function, to have debates in Parliament, and to work in the interest of the people.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.
I really like keeping my kitchen counters as clear as possible. I tend to function better when there's less clutter.
Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.
We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.
My dream is to produce a generation of actors who realise what the function of an actor in a movie is supposed to be.
Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.