"I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer."

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Source : Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#Eye Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Common knowledge, but important nonetheless”
“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”

Source : "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 7-8), 1947.
“My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.”
“When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.”
“I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you sir.”
“Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.”
“They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.”
“In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited range of constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be performed without such a resort.”

Source : Martin Van Buren (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk”, p.1825, Wildside Press LLC

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