"One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.”
“Thou hast seen nothing yet.”
“...the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.”
“Elena?" "Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising.”
“I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.”
“I'm nervous whenever I perform.”
“What you are thinking is what you are becoming.”

Source : Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.180, Simon and Schuster
“If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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