"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

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"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

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"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."

Debbie Allen, American Actress

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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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"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."

Mary Astell, English Writer

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"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation."

Kim Campbell, Canadian Statesman

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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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"Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do."

Paul Graham, American Scientist

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"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master."

Milton Glaser, American Designer

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"Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology."

David Bromstad, American Designer

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"Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail."

Truth

"If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled."

Man

"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."

Design

"Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private."

Society

"If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?"

Man

"We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness."

Happiness

"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it."

Truth

"Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds."

Reflection

"Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up."

Education

"To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party."

Justice