"The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man."

-- Ed Bearss

#Marine Quotes #Boys Quotes #Men Quotes

“Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.”

Source : Thom Gunn (2010). “The Sense of Movement”, p.6, Faber & Faber
“Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.”

Source : "Was John Szarkowski the most influential person in 20th-century photography?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.
“As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.”

Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.
“I want to be seen as a classic model.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.”
“Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.
“God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.”
“An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.”

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