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Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
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Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
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Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
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Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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