Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination where they meet in the myth.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way you don't dream like that.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

My mother whom I love dearly has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce step-children dysfunction and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better and explain the Duty before us it should be considered that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

Virtue is simply happiness and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Happiness is a byproduct of function purpose and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Anoint v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

You can't fall back on the private sector and say 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government the Federal Reserve the Treasury and the FDIC etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better and that's what I'm doing.

Unfortunately corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

All too often government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out containing problems and limiting the damage but in doing so supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Government is dysfunctional.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

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