"Design is nothing if not decision making."

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Source : Henry Petroski (2007). “Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design”, p.8, Vintage

Henry Petroski

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“[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.”

Source : Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski”, p.6, Psychology Press
“In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.”
“You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.”

Source : Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.77, Canongate Books
“People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.”

Source : "Interview: Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Bettie Page)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. April 14, 2006.
“Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.”
“When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.”
“There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.”

Source : Chuck Norris, Joe Hyams (1989). “The secret of inner strength: my story”, Diamond Books
“In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.”

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