"I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe."

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Walter Mischel

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“For me photography had an immediacy... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived, and how they had to live? I thought the most penetrating and most immediate way to get to some of those questions was through photography.”
“We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.”
“To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.”
“Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.”
“Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.”
“Find out where the ball is, get there; hit it.”

Source : Explaining his tactics as a batsman. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a privilege denied to everyone else, even including nonprofit organizations? None! My contention is that with the churches exempted from property taxation, you and I have to pay that much more in taxes to make up for what they're not contributing.”
“The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief and wait until she's done crying. If she curses me, curse with her. And if by any chance she asks about me, tell her that I'm sorry.”

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