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• A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

  Jean-Francois Millet

  Photograph, Casts, Inferiors

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• Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he took, he was already comparing nature to the first photograph he had taken.

  Vik Muniz

  Views, Saint, Rooftops

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• Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.

  Willy Ronis

  Spur Of The Moment, Spurs, Attention

  "Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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• The most striking feature of the new is the sheer mass. Photography was previously a mass phenomenon, but now, quantity is doubtless the outstanding quality. For a long time photos have been taken frequently and everywhere, but now photos are taken permanently and everywhere,... What is new is that we can watch them practically in real time.

  Joachim Schmid

  Photography, Real, Long

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• I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

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• There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn't occur to anyone to worry about the manner in which a photograph was taken.

  George W. S. Trow

  Worry, Important, Photographer

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• My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

  Jane Fonda

  Lying, Issues, Said

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• Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Art, Cockroaches, Mills

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• Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.

  Patsy Cline

  Jesus, Hands, Rooms

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• Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators."

  Andy Ihnatko

  Microsoft, Skype, Lists

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• The pressure to conform to 'politically correct' speech is primarily a pressure not to use certain expressions. But when our freedom to use certain expressions is taken away, then our ability to think in certain ways is also curtailed.

  Wayne Grudem

  Thinking, Expression, Use

  Vern S. Poythress, Wayne A. Grudem (2004). “The TNIV and the Gender-neutral Bible Controversy”, B & H Academic

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• In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.

  Robert Lawlor

  Powerful, Numbers, Impact

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• Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced budget-but these are ploys, mirages: they exist only to undermine positions taken by the Republicans. He doesn't fight for anything substantive-except of course, re-election. ...He has fallen into the dangerous habit of lip synching the presidency: he gives the appearance of leadership, but not the substance.

  Joe Klein

  Fighting, Cutting, Giving

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• Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Epic, Discovery, Achievement

  J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Institute of Physics (1972). “Reflections on the resonances of physics history”

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• I shall never flaunt the little learning that I have acquired through the care and help my father has given me. If I have learned anything, it is only because he took care to teach me. Had he not taken upon himself the trouble of instructing me, I would be as ignorant as many other children.

  Augustin-Louis Cauchy

  Children, Father, Ignorant

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• The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

  Kinky Friedman

  School, Want, Ten Commandments

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• I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.

  Toni Braxton

  Careers, Felt

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• Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

  Charles Darwin

  Pain, Writing, Style

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• I think we are isolating ourselves, and in so isolating ourselves, I think we're minimizing ourselves, I don't think we are taken as seriously today as we were a few years ago.

  Tom Daschle

  Thinking, Years, Today

  "Daschle criticism rankles Bush on overseas trip" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2001.

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• I feel that I am entitled to take medicinal marijuana. In general, I believe that everyone who has a doctor's prescription is entitled to take marijuana. I, however, do not believe that my day in court should be taken from me, and that's essentially what's happening.

  Peter McWilliams

  Believe, Marijuana, Doctors

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• It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

  Jason Statham

  Dying, Quality, Thespians

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• You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Burden, Humans, Human Beings

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• We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, War, Sleep

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• Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."

  John F. Kennedy

  President, Comfort, Failing

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• I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Dog, Race

  To the Peel Commission on a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, 1937.

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