"Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame. I don't need the admiration. I'd like all of those things, but I don't need them. Because what I get from photographing is learning. I have spent my life learning by looking through a lens."

-- Rondal Partridge

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“We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant â€˜He who spoke truth like an oracleâ€™. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The worldâ€™s most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician.”
“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.”
“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”

Source : Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”
“I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.”
“When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.”
“The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put out into the world.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.”

Source : C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.17, Princeton University Press
“If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that even a small child should be able to see the insanity and utter physical impossibility of a piece of bread and some wine somehow taking on corporeal form.”

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