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“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.”

“Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.”

Stills Force Function Originals Idolatry

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.”

Church Function Originals Unorthodox

Book:Psychology and religion: West and East

Source: Psychology and religion: West and East

“From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon.”

Has Beens Eye Weapons Function Originals Balloons Satellites Aircraft Sensing

Book:War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception

Source: War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception

“The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.”

Stills Seems Used Lost Function Originals Sacred Used To Be Email Reminders Texting Postcards Memento

Author:Elaine Equi

“Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been”

Looks Two Use Brain Function Originals Library Original Thought

Book:The Power of One

Source: The Power of One

“Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just go out there and rent them.”

Vision Internet Fit Models Function Originals

Author:Eric A. Meyer

“I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.”

Thinking Trying Mind Persons Important Ideas Different Able Film Form Havens Tradition Function Originals Strikes Originality New Ideas Preoccupation

Author:Stanley Kubrick