#function

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. ↗

— June Jordan

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Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair. ↗

— Judith Light

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The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

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We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family. ↗

— Star Jones

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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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