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Helmut Gernsheim

"Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)... the circumstance that photography was not invented earlier remains the greatest mystery in its history... It had apparently never occurred to any of the multitude of artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were in the habit of using the camera obscura to try to fix its image permanently."

-- Helmut Gernsheim

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“True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.”
“Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.”

Source : Roger Casement's speech from the dock, 1916.
“Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end”
“We have a very real God with a very real presence.”
“Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the society by the art. And people will see our lack of refinement when they dig up our art.”
“My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.”
“The thing about all these charities is that who sees where the money goes? I don't and you don't. For all I know, the president of Make a Wish just used all the money to buy himself a mansion and a yacht. That's why I keep all of my money for myself, at least then I know I'm doing good for at least one person for sure.”
“The Vikings need to go down there and hit that town like Katrina.”

Source : "Gay Group Calls for Football Hall of Famer to Apologize Over 'Brokeback' Comment". www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2010.

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