#function

A functioning police state needs no police. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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

— Samuel Butler

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As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#beginning #character #commission #consequence #doubts

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#burden #doing #economy #functions #how

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#behavior #christians #cruel #dissenters #even

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Everybody has some dysfunction in their families. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#everybody #families #some #their

Dynamism is a function of change. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#dynamism #function

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#any #anything #back #basic #classes

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. ↗

— Barber Conable

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