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• Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

  Allan Massie

  Military, War, Lying

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.152, Canongate Books

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• A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing for attention at a highly televised event.

  Tamara Mellon

  Fashion, Actresses, Events

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• The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Truth, Honesty, World

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• Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world.

  Keith Devlin

  Education, Real, School

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• Learn not to add too many features right away, and get the core idea built and tested.

  Leah Culver

  Ideas, Add, Built

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• Making a product better often requires removing features.

  Marco Arment

  Products

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• You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation are salient features but I also strive to make music that is peaceful. I want to make music that aids world peace in the same way that the people who shaped my development did.

  Bennie Maupin

  People, Peaceful, Want

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• Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Civilization, Progress, Clarity

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• The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

  Yahoo Serious

  Intelligent, Obsession, Release

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of the world’s population. Already there are many who prefer this crowded life, but there are others who do not, and these will gradually be eliminated. Life in the crowded conditions of cities has many unattractive features, but in the long run these may be overcome, not so much by altering them, but simply by changing the human race into liking them.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Running, Men, Civilization

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• If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Car, Able, Wheels

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• A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

  Nigel Dennis

  Book, Years, Two

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• The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.

  Mary Midgley

  Moving, Our World, Essentials

  Mary Midgley, David Midgley (2005). “The Essential Mary Midgley”, p.375, Psychology Press

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• I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

  John Howe

  Switzerland, Film, Animated

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• One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Bullshit, Culture

  "On Bullshit". Book by Harry Frankfurt, 2005.

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• What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.

  Donald A. Norman

  Simple, Numbers, Devices

  Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.40, MIT Press

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• The ears are the last feature to age.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Age, Ears, Lasts

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• The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

  Johan Huizinga

  Culture, Fundamentals, Elements

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• For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Issues, Office

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• Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

  William Barrett

  Unemployment, Hunger, Jobless

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture....The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

  Gustav Stickley

  Wall, Curves, Ideas

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• As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some of the meatier GNOME libraries, as well as the nifty language features of C#.

  Nat Friedman

  Hard Work, Writing, People

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• I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do - is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less effort.

  Eric Ries

  Running, Entrepreneur, Effort

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• Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Character

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• The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with a nice voice and asked if they could do a feature article on us about how a commune works. They came and asked us questions, took our photos and disappeared. One week later the article appeared and it said: 'This kind of community stinks and if this is the future of Germany then we need Adolf back.'

  Chris Karrer

  Nice, Voice, Community

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