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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
Design

"Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed."

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Lamar Boschman Musician
Design

"Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible."

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Gustave Flaubert Novelist
Design

"The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded."

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Jamie Oliver Chef, Author, Television Personality
Design

"If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk."

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Prince Philip Royalty
Design

"If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly."

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Design

"Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design."

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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
Design

"A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology."

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George Will Political Commentator, Author
Design

"The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum."

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Alexander McQueen Fashion Designer
Design

"I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late."

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