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Quote by Mary Astell
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in t

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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We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Informd what is the true Way to Happiness. – Mary Astell

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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. – Mary Astell

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Education
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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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When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. – David Coverdale

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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. – Mary Astell

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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. – Stephen Gardiner

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design

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. – K. Eric Drexler

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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens

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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. – Gertrude Stein

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You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake… This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time. – Chuck Palahniuk

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Little Miss Sunshine snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you dont hold out huge hope for. – Greg Kinnear

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