"Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality."

-- Camille Paglia

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“Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world. In this lies the power and the meaning of spiritual companionship.”
“The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.”
“A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.”
“All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.”
“You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,â€ which is true. Caring doesnâ€™t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.”
“We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.”

Source : Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons
“This is government. There is no entertainment.”
“When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.”

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