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Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.: Isabelle Eberhardt
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.: Stan Dunn
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.: Brendan Francis
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.: John Heywood (1497 - 1580)
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.: Joseph Farrell
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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.: Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002
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Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.: Anonymous
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.: Okakura Kakuzo
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003