"That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else."
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"Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility."
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"Beauty is the brilliance of truth."
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"The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected."
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"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."
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"Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents."
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"Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing."
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"We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present."
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"Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability."
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"I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens"
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"To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race."
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"Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win."
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"A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants."
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"We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses."
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"We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place."
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"Real art has the capacity to make us nervous."
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"You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future"
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"We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it’s not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that are good for human flourishing. But that’s not what sends you to heaven or Hell."
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"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
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"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
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