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Death
- Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
- - Groucho Marx
- Oscar Wilde lay on his death bed. "Do you repent of
your sins and renounce the devil?" asked the priest.
Wilde replied, "This is no time to be making
enemies!"
- - Anonymous
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- I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by
mistaking, by giving, by losing.
- - Anais Nin
Design
- Less is more.
- - Robert Browning, from the poem Andrea del Sarto
(1855)
- All things in nature have a shape, that is to say, a
form, an outward semblance, that tells us what they are,
that distinguishes them from ourselves and from each
other ....
Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight or the
open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe
swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base,
the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form
ever follows function, and this is the law.
Where function does not change, form does not change. The
granite rocks, the ever-brooding hills, remain for ages;
the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a
twinkling.
- - Louis Sullivan, The Tall Office Building
Artistically Considered (1896)
Discipline
- Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a
kind of order that sets me free to fly.
- - Julie Andrews
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- Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers
formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to
all.
- - George Washington