"When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite."

-- Richard Thaler

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“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”

Source : Lesley K. Baier, Walker Evans, Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, Mass.) (1977). “Walker Evans at Fortune, 1945-1965, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 16 November, 1977-23 January, 1978”
“I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.”
“I think any musical has so many moving parts and the challenge is unifying all the moving parts in particular because you have the camera and now it's all about adaptation and what works in one medium doesn't necessarily work in another so the challenge is to stay as true as you can to the material and yet not be afraid to step out of it and add elements to make it satisfying cinematically.”

Source : Source: thesource.com
“The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.”
“There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.”
“To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.”

Source : Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.285, Princeton University Press
“Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.”
“If you grew up Protestant in Ireland, of course, at least in the twentieth century, there was always a contingent that would never really consider you Irish. Meanwhile in Britain you'd never quite be considered British. You fell into a gap in the definitions.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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