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What's the biggest function of a cell phone? What does a cell phone do for humanity? It makes people more productive.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.
What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.
The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function.
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.
A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.
When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.
The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.
To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story.
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.
As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
If you've got no base, it's very difficult to function as an MP. You cannot be a 'virtual' MP, you must be a proper one.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.
Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.
The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.
I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
When you function in love, your inside creates your outside. When you function in fear, your outside creates your inside.
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.
Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
When your primary function is to be happy, then whatever comes to you is irrelevant. Happiness is your true manifestation.
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive
The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.
Maturity transformation is a central part of the economic function of banks and many other types of financial intermediaries.
Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.