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"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."

"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."

Norman Spinrad, American Author

Design, English, States, United

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"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration."

"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

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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."

"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."

Mary Astell, English Writer

Design, Government, Truth, Lie

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"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."

"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."

Christian Lacroix, French Designer

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"Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design."

"Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design."

Edward Tufte, American Educator

Design, Practice, Theory

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"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

Calvin Klein, American Designer

Design, People, Company, Production

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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

Design, Focus, Materialism, Space

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"The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes."

"The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Design, Art, Sense

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"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Design, Men, Truth, Chance

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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."

"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

Design, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

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"God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision."

"God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Design, Creation, Vision, God

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"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Design, Work, Calling, Purpose

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"I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men."

"I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Design, Truth, Faith, Power, Wisdom

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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Design, Truth, Power, Life, Wisdom

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"Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master."

"Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Design, Body, Creation, Master

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Design, Performance

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