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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

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In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them. ↗

— Alija Izetbegovic

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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. ↗

— William James

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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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