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None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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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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I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me. ↗

— Khandi 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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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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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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If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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