#designed

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#contaminate #countries #democracy #designed #ideas

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed. ↗

— Michael Behe

#car #culture #designed #engine #guess

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#best #cannot #century #deal #designed

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#cd #classical #designed #i #make

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. ↗

— Robert Evans

#attention #buildings #careful #designed #enlighten

Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door! ↗

— Alton Brown

#cook #designed #does #door #evil

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#designed #his #man #more #present

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. ↗

— Edward Felten

#between #collision #copyright #creativity #decisions

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#definitely #designed #dreaming #dreams #family

We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through. ↗

— Donna Karan

#designed #dressing #inside #long #long way