Transfer Function Fall

Famous quotes containing the words transfer, function and/or fall:

“I have proceeded ... to prevent the lapse from ... the point of blending between wakefulness and sleep.... Not ... that I can render the point more than a point—but that I can startle myself ... into wakefulness—and thus transfer the point ... into the realm of Memory—convey its impressions,... to a situation where ... I can survey them with the eye of analysis.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“The one who rushes ahead hastily will probably fall behind.”
—Chinese proverb.

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