The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
~ Ansel Adams
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The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
~ Ansel Adams
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While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
~ Claude Shannon
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist—almost fascist—society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented!
~ Jean-François Revel
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Since the value of freedom rests on the opportunities it provides for unforeseen and unpredictable actions, we will rarely know what we lose through a particular restriction of freedom.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
~ Mark Rothko
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
~ Joan Didion
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