It’s always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
~ Diane Arbus
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It’s always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
~ Diane Arbus
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Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Trust is less quantifiable than other forms of capital. Its decline is vaguely felt before it’s plainly seen.
~ Jerry Useem via The Atlantic
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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
~ Franz Kafka
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There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
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Although intergenerational population replacement involves long time lags, cultural change can reach a tipping point at which new norms become dominant. Conformism and social desirability effects then reverse polarity: instead of retarding the changes linked with intergenerational population replacement, they accelerate them, bringing unusually rapid cultural change.
~ Ronald Inglehart
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
~ Will Rogers
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What if we spent less time shouting into the void and being washed over with shouting in return-and more time talking in rooms to those for whom our words are intended?
~ Jenny Odell
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An economy that gives most people the chance for a decent life doesn’t arise by accident or through impersonal forces.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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I don’t think goodness is something that you learn. If you’re left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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