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Death

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
- Groucho Marx
Oscar Wilde lay on his death bed. "Do you repent of your sins and renounce the devil?" asked the priest. Wilde replied, "This is no time to be making enemies!"
- Anonymous
 
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by mistaking, by giving, by losing.
- Anais Nin

Design

Less is more.
- Robert Browning, from the poem Andrea del Sarto (1855)
All things in nature have a shape, that is to say, a form, an outward semblance, that tells us what they are, that distinguishes them from ourselves and from each other ....
Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change, form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever-brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling.
- Louis Sullivan, The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)

Discipline

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
- Julie Andrews
 
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- George Washington