#ned

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cannot #context #describe #designed #form

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare. ↗

— Barack Obama

#bill #comes #core #enshrined #everybody

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people. ↗

— Robert Orben

#god #new #obsolescence #people #planned

We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel? ↗

— Baroness Orczy

#elusive #everywhere #heaven #hell #here

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#andy #broadway #bros #cream #funk

If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared. ↗

— David Axelrod

#completely #consistency #consistent #governing #high

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions. ↗

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#am #bodily #done #eating #functions

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience. ↗

— John D. Barrow

#designed #no reason #our #reason #should

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#happened #i #prepared #sure

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

#attention #climates #different #distinctions #explore