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To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

~Dave Holland

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Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.

~Daveed Diggs

Topics: Being Function Just Know Stage Thing

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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

~David Bohm

Topics: Also Any Body Corporation Department Function Meaning Only Organized Sense Separately Society Some System Together

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This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

~David Bohm

Topics: Could Fertile Function Generally Harmonious Help Human Human Mind Ideas Kind Make Mind Needed New Only Orderly Overall Possible Society Source Stable Theoretical Thinking Turn Way Which

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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

~David Brinkley

Topics: Emphasis Function Give News Performs Same Tv Very Well Were You

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To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

~David Farr

Topics: Convey Eden Function Garden Like Literally Matters Meaningless Symbolic Try

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When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

~David Fincher

Topics: Act Because Behavior Believe Editorial Function He Him Know Like Look Mean Met Might People Say Says Somebody Someone Stuff They Say Watching Why

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Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.

~David Graeber

Topics: Actually After Always Answer Been Eliminate Entirely Exist Function Hard How Know Like Look Money Naive Particular Problem Proposing Question Revolution Revolutionaries Seems Utopian Will You

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Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets retain their oceans is a function of distance from the sun, all other things being equal.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Being Did Distance Earth Equal Function Future Going How In The Past Just Long Lose Oceans Other Past Planets Retain Sun Things Venus

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Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

~David Hare

Topics: Business Capitalist Entrepreneurial Function Great Just Now Politics System

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