Quotes About Function

war and peace also dominated the function of the sanans, leaping and singing priests grouped in two sodalities: twelve Salians of Mars and twelve of Quirinus, who respectively opened and closed the season, the first in March, the second in October, under the common protection of Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus.

The type tells you what purpose the beat performs in the narrative. Beats may perform multiple functions, particularly during key moments. The resolution marks the emotional state engendered in the audience by the beat as it closes. It

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

the brain's business is not to give us an accurate or objective view of the world, but to give us a useful view - one we can act on

C'est une question de tuyauterie, ni plus ni moins.

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 9: 35 a.m., I am usually in a lecture hall at the university, expounding about botany and ecology— trying, in short, to explain to my students how Skywoman's gardens, known by some as "global ecosystems," function.

Change is a function of time and experience, and time is implacable.

La mayoría de los hombres no son más que máquinas que convierten la comida en mierda» —citó. Ivan le miró alzando una ceja. —¿Quién dijo eso? ¿Tu abuelo? —Leonardo da Vinci —respondió Miles al momento. Pero se vio obligado a añadir—: Pero mi abuelo me lo citó a mí

Neither Junior nor Senior held such baldly racist sentiments, but they agreed that the board had to accommodate retrograde southern views in order to function.

El amor es una mentira, pero funciona.

it seems to me that, on balance, soul/body dualism has been the enemy of compassion. For instance, the moral stigma that still surrounds disorders of mood and cognition seems largely the result of viewing the mind as distinct from the brain. When the pancreas fails to produce insulin, there is no shame in taking synthetic insulin to compensate for its lost function.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.

impossible. Teleportation is a Tigroid Function. (Applause) Any man was capable of jaunting provided

You can influence these centers to function in a more balanced and integrated fashion. But to do that, you must first learn how to change your brain waves so you can enter this subconscious operating system. In fact, moving from beta brain waves (where the thinking brain is constantly analyzing and putting much attention on the outer world) to alpha brain waves (which indicate you're calmly placing more attention on the inner world) is key.

When jungles of neurons fire in unison to support a new thought, an additional chemical (a protein) is created within the nerve cell and makes its way to the cell's center, or nucleus, where it lands in the DNA. The protein then switches on several genes. Since the job of the genes is to make proteins that maintain both the structure and function of the body, the nerve cell then quickly makes a new protein to create new branches between nerve cells.

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Prohibition, Bourgois explains in his writing, creates a system in which the most insane and sadistic violence has a sane and functional logic. It is required. It is rewarded.

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

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

I never needed much sleep. But I've always said that is a function of do you enjoy life.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.