#function

The function of posterity is to look after itself. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#function #itself #look #posterity

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#human #most #natural #spontaneous #worrying

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#function #masterpieces #modern #museum #old

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is. ↗

— Evan Davis

#asleep #awake #body #brain #called

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations. ↗

— Mos Def

#art #cheering #collect #dormant #functional

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. ↗

— James Dewar

#like #minds #only #open #parachutes

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. ↗

— Arthur Bloch

#enough #eventually #improve #long #malfunction

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#administration #against #clinton #clinton administration #completely

A sex trophy should be functional, and shaped like a dildo, yet decorative, and shaped like Ben Bernanke. Insert it in your ass as desired.
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— Jarod Kintz

#decorative #functional #funny #humor #random