
The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.
– Ted Chiang
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- My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death. – Christine Fonseca
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- Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client. – Peleg Top
- Principles that drive equilibrium in nature’s design also power human design. – Maggie Macnab
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- Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function. – AW Tozer
- Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia. – William Faulkner
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- Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything – even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes. – Jennifer Paynter
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- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
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- Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous. – Idries Shah
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- Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. – Hunter S Thompson
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- Employees go to school for 12 -“ 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 -“ 18 minutes interview. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
