#function

In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#focusing #functions #global #major #management

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#function #should #social #social function #sustained

The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#analysis #charged #cia #doing #either

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#anymore #autocratic #bosses #companies #function

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#functions #long #madness #man #protected

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#bring #function #imagination #meet #myth

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#although #art #arts #away #better

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process. ↗

— Howard Gordon

#been #before #circuit #come #doing

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section. ↗

— Walter Rudolf Hess

#brain #deep #exact #functional #information

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#adaptive #experience #function #human #human experience