#function

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. ↗

— Asa Gray

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There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that. ↗

— Rider Strong

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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function. ↗

— Robin Day

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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out. ↗

— Jack Dee

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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ↗

— Max Eastman

#cherish #consciousness #defining #function

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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