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It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,” said the Voice... The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed, like the distinction between fact and myth, was purely terrestrial. The pattern is so large that within the little frame of earthly experience there appear pieces of it between which we can see no connection, and other pieces between which we can. Hence we rightly, for our sue, distinguish the accidental from the essential. But step outside that frame and the distinction drops down into the void, fluttering useless wings. He had been forced out of the frame, caught up into the larger pattern… “My name also is Ransom,” said the Voice. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened. ↗

— Scott Adams

#consequences #designated #discontent #employees #fear

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#diversion #first #government #late #learned

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#complete #completely #design #foolproof #fools

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. ↗

— John Adams

#america #consider #design #earth #emancipation

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#design #i #look #rehearsal #say

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine. ↗

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

#architecture #design #architecture

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. ↗

— Jeanne Gang

#design #inspiration #architecture

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity. ↗

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a means of getting from one place to another. ↗

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell

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