"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

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“If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.”
“Finding like-minded people is very important. It's hard to be a happy meal in a room full of sad people.”
“The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'”
“Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else.”

Source : Frederick H. Evans, Anne Hammond (1992). “Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography”
“There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.”
“No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.”
“And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.”

Source : "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.
“There are some cases that have come to my attention where there's been a head injury, or getting struck by lightning and surviving, with really no disability or residual. So there are cases that I'm aware of where there's been some incident which triggered the acquired savant ability, but is not associated with long term disability, so that can occur. But I think that's probably the exception rather than the rule in that I think many of the acquired savants do end up with some residual disability.”

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