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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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in Gods Eyes. – Mary Astell

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Wisdom
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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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design
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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. – Mary Astell

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User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project. – Donald Norman

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The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we dont design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We dont really care, as long as were selling the one the customer wants. – Michael Dell

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design

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. – Richard Powers

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I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents… I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen. – Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

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What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command. – Havelock Ellis

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Voting is a civic sacrament. – Theodore Hesburgh

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Being a biological mother just isnt part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm. – Kim Cattrall

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Piety and corruption go together like hot dogs and mustard. They have to. No one can fulfill the demands of piety; as a daily demand, it is inhuman. So it inspires the opposite—just for the sheer health of the body, if not the soul. – Norman Mailer, “Primitive Man, Art and Science, Evil and Judgment,” The Spooky A

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