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- Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
- Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-14-2005
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
- The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.
- Lisa Williams, The Lessons of Nixon, 05-19-06
- Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
- Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950
- Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.
- Anonymous, Blackfoot chief (c. 1880)
- One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.
- Edward L. Flom
- A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
- He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
- Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
- With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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