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“I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.”
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“One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.”
Source : François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”
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“Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.”
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“We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...”
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“Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.”
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“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
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“You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience”
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“At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?”
Source : André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.74, Macmillan