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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do. ↗

— Namie Amuro

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This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. ↗

— Shana Alexander

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Do I think I can take 20 carries now? Well, I think finally last week and this is week was probably the first time I could probably say, yeah, I could take 20 carries and go do some damage. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

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For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

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