"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."
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"To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed."
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"Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting."
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"None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame."
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"The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed."
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"I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal."
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"We design our lives through the power of choices."
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"We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own."
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"I get a real kick out of it, seeing people wear my designs."
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"Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits."
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"I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'"
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"It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design."
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"The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition."
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"As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time."
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"I'd love to design bridal dresses."
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"Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them."
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"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."
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"In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design."
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"Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions."
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"Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design."
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