I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
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I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
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Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Trust is to capitalism what alcohol is to wedding receptions: a social lubricant. In low-trust societies (Russia, southern Italy), economic growth is constrained. People who don’t trust other people think twice before investing in, collaborating with, or hiring someone who isn’t a family member (or a member of their criminal gang). The concept may sound squishy, but the effect isn’t.
~ Jerry Useem via The Atlantic
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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
~ Franz Kafka
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The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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To express what I feel I use the medium best suited to express that idea, which is also always the most economical one.
~ Man Ray
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
~ Franz Kafka
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it, that we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
~ Will Rogers
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The secret, the best-kept secret is that the most famous painter in the world, which I am, does not yet know how to go about painting.
~ Salvador Dali
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