"During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us."
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"Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design."
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"Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living."
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"And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject."
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"You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter."
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"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design."
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"Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist."
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"It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth."
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"If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity."
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"The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design."
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"I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control."
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"I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book."
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"What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design."
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"I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still."
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"They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines."
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"It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper."
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"I had an argument with my students on why they want to present their work in an iBook, it's like your sister who has no design training, put on some outfits in the bedroom, took some pictures, sent them to Apple and after paying 40 quid, you have a portfolio! I can't believe it."
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