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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Abstraction Attribute Everything Function Highest His Man Mind Necessity Reasoning Religious Skyscraper Smallest Wheel

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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Business Business Community Cannot Civil Civil Society Communities Community Five Function Governments Last Learned Lessons Main Nations Need Properly Society Support United United Nations Without Years I Have Learned

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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

Topics: Congress Decision Drag Function Heels Should Think Way Well

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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

~Barney Frank

Topics: Been Function Medicine Regulation State

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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

~Barry Lopez

Topics: About Atmosphere Doing Function People Planet Provide Think Which Wisely Writer

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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Blow Come Dice Function Luck Random Seven Still Up Want Whether You

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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

~Bat For Lashes

Topics: Accepted Artists Back Doing Edge Expression Fulfil Function Gratification Immediate Instant Instant Gratification Outside Repressed Sense Society Things

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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.

~Beck

Topics: Acknowledge Advertisement Covers Draw Essentially Fact Function Look Music Prospective Purpose Record

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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

~Beck

Topics: Function Kind Like Musician Never Perform Personality Pretended Really

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One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Act Animals Attention Best Bodily Civilized Disguise Draws Eating Fact Forks Function Like Our Props Someone Stare Them Things Trapped You

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