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Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest… — Michael Denton
Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this… — G. K. Butterfield
Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of… — Massimo Vignelli
I donâ€™t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesnâ€™t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and… — Bill Moggridge
The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first? — Jack Burke, Jr.
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. — Pete Townshend
People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it. — Arne Jacobsen
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered… — Oscar Niemeyer
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. — Toni Morrison
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith… — Ambrose Bierce
Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball. — Les Claypool
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in… — Anna Paquin
I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests… — Nolan Ryan
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding… — Shirley Chisholm
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke
The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold… — Otto von Bismarck
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to… — Jacques Barzun
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that… — Hannah Arendt
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never… — Leo Tolstoy

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