"The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit."

-- Lawren Harris

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“Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.”
“Photography is an empathy towards the world.”
“Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that weâ€™ve undertaken in the last century,”
“Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.”
“There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.”
“My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.”
“There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.”

Source : Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

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