#function

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. ↗

— Joel A. Barker

#function #future #make #past #prophecy

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#destined #dysfunctional #families #life #people

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#believe #certain #comes #dysfunction #everybody

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. ↗

— David McCullough

#better #forgets #function #individual #nation

I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#any #bad #brain #call #day

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#continuous #details #function #grand #intimate

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. ↗

— Anais Nin

#cease #familiar #function #magic #meaning