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| The most important FUNction of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. | Allan Bloom | 1930-1992, American Educator, Author |
| There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make FUN of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social FUNction exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic |
| Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. FUN helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves. | Herman Cain | American Businessman, Founder of Godfather Pizza |
| Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one FUNnel into the other. | John Christian Morgenstern | |
| The FUNction of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to FUNction. | Source Unknown | |
| Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the FUNction and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. | Bruce Lee | 1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist |
| The perfecting of one's self is the FUNdamental base of all progress and all moral development. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and FUNctions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. | George Gurdjieff | 1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer |
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| Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required FUNction in the work of the world. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his FUNeral. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total FUN for him... and it was for me. | Wayne Gretzky | 1961-, Canadian Hockey Player |
| I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a FUNny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. | Barbara Walters | 1931-, American TV Personality |
| Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its FUNction is to make the worse appear the better. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always FUNny. | Hebrew Proverb | Sayings of Hebrew Origin |
| Great leaders understand human behaviour rather than the cybernetics of any FUNction. | James Schorr | |
| Advertising is the most FUN you can have with your clothes on. | Jerry Della Femina | American Advertising Executive |
| Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it FUN to read. | Leo Burnett | American Marketing Expert |
| Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more FUN but not vital. | Mary Quant | 1936-, British Fashion Designer |
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| Labor is man's greatest FUNction. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. | Orville Dewey | American Critic |
| Business has only two FUNctions -- marketing and innovation. | Peter F. Drucker | 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author |
| The world basically and FUNdamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else. | Preston Bradley | |
| If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or FUN, and if you're not in business for FUN or profit, what the hell are you doing there? | Robert Townsend | American Businessman, President of Avis |
| The absolute FUNdamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. | Sir John Egan | |
| I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of FUNding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| People must not do things for FUN. We are not here for FUN. There is no reference to FUN in any act of Parliament. | A. P. Herbert | 1890-1971, British Author, Politician |
| To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest FUNctions of civilization. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| According to this conception, the sole FUNction of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| Most of the FUNdamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
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| Which is better: to have FUN with FUNgi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds? | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Hell and damnation, life is such FUN with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! | Alexander Blok | Russian Poet |
| Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy. | Alexandre Dumas | 1802-1870, French Novelist, Dramatist |
| The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the FUN come in? | Alice James | 1848-1892, American Diarist, Sister of Henry, William James |
| A FUNeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Success is more a FUNction of consistent common sense than it is of genius. | An Wang | 1920-1989, Chinese American Physicist, Founder of Wang Laboratories |
| I used to think that everything was just being FUNny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell? | Andy Warhol | 1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker |
| He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a FUNdamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination. | Aneurin Bevan | 1897-1960, British Labor Politician |
| I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is FUN but frivolous. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| Of course drugs were FUN. | Anjelica Huston | 1951-, American Actress |
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| It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself FUNctions as an addict. | Anne W. Schaef | |
| What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a FUNction of our true capability. It is more likely a FUNction of our beliefs about who we are. | Anthony Robbins | 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant |
| Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret FUNction of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality. | Arnold Bennett | 1867-1931, British Novelist |
| The FUNdament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his FUNdamental view of man's nature. | Ayn Rand | 1905-1982, Russian Writer, Philosopher |
| In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite FUNdamentalists. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| The FUNdamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The FUNdamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the FUNdamental concept in physics. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much FUN out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. | Bill Vaughan | 1915-1977, American Author, Journalist |
| If you are going to tell people the truth, be FUNny or they will kill you. | Billy Wilder | 1906-, American Film Director |
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