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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about progress, faith, future, people

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not...

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Quote by Francis Bacon about things

A common mistake that people make when trying to design...

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Quote by Douglas Adams about stupidity, mistake, common sense, people

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Quote by John Adams about miracle, earth

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about leadership, progress, science, peace, art, magic, time

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's...

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about nation, people

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great...

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about danger

Annie Roth is one our best, most inspired costume...

Annie Roth is one our best, most inspired costume designers. And she's a full collaborator in constructing a character.

Quote by Glenn Close about character

Much of his and also my time was spent on designing and...

Much of his and also my time was spent on designing and building advanced electronic equipment for improved NMR spectrometers.

Quote by Richard Ernst about time

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Quote by Bill Gates about mercy, evolution, gods, question, day, world, people, contentment

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a...

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

Quote by Peter Fonda about experience, contentment

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Quote by Herodotus about purpose, victory, man, moment

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

Quote by Elton John about clothes, love, life

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

The primary function of the design engineer is to make...

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, impossible, things

When designing a program to handle all possible dumb...

When designing a program to handle all possible dumb errors, nature creates a dumber user.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, error, nature

Class schedules are designed so that every student will...

Class schedules are designed so that every student will waste maximum time between classes.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about school, education, waste, students, time

If god wanted boots to be comfortable he would have...

If god wanted boots to be comfortable he would have designed them like running shoes.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, god

Camera are designed with a built-in sensor, that senses...

Camera are designed with a built-in sensor, that senses the anticipation to develop the film.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography, film

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