"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

Design, Wisdom, Thought, Action

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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either."

Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish Scientist

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"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."

Michael Dell, American Businessman

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"Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."

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"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."

Life

"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."

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"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."

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"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

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"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."

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"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

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"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."

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"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

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