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Quote by Mary Astell
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a h

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? – Mary Astell

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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? – Mary Astell

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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. – Mary Astell

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My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned. – David Crane

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Design is an unknown. – Geoffrey Beene

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I think its really important to design things with a kind of personality. – Marc Newson

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To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. – Charles Eames

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