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We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

Murari Lal Sharma

Impact, Energy, Action

"Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn't been verified". Interview with David Rose, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 24, 2010.

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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

A. D. Coleman

Photography, World, Courses

A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

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Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist

Andre Bazin

Writing, Mean, Reality

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This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?

Isaac Newton

Believe, Taken, Law

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Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Angela Carter

Change, Historical, Enemy

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To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Writing, Humanity, Historical

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That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent.

John F. Kennedy

Independent, Men, Law

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... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

John Ruskin

Men, Justice, Political

John Ruskin (1872). “"Unto this Last": Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy”, p.21

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The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

Louis D. Brandeis

Men, Law Courts, Rights

Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928) See Brandeis 1

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The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.

John Tyler

Religious, Law, Presidential

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. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

Plato

Money, Children, Father

Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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A disciple is a disciple maker.

Francis Chan

Thought Provoking, Provoking, Disciple

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...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Women, Thinking, Government

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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

Don DeLillo

Taken, Thinking, Years

"Mao II". Book by Don DeLillo, 1991.

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What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Art, Believe, Successful

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe in a man rather than in God. It is a compound made up chiefly of Manism with but little Deism, and is as near to Atheism as twilight is to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a Redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious, or an irreligious, eclipse of light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.

Thomas Paine

Christian, Religious, Believe

Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.26, e-artnow

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African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

Wole Soyinka

Film, Mere, Scraping

"Africa's Own Cannes Festival / Lots of enthusiasm, dearth of funds for black cinema" by Tina Susman, www.sfgate.com. March 4, 1995.

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I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

Ashanti

Decision, Good Decision, Decision Makers

Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 27, 2006.

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The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

Kenneth Oakley

Men, Views, Tools

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May future generations look back on our work
and say that these were men and women who,
in a moment of great crisis,
stood up to their politicians,
the opinion-makers, and the establishment,
and saved their country.

Ron Paul

Country, Men, Generations

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I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black.

Kanye West

Rocks, White, People

"Entertainer of the Year: Kanye West". Interview with John Mcalley, www.spin.com. December 21, 2007.

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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains.

Susan Vreeland

Heart, Humble, Hands

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I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

Mo Rocca

Self, Special, Important

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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Real, Drawing, Wish

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Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

John Milton

Fighting, Dark, Fire

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.63

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