"Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ..."

-- John Szarkowski

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“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”

Source : H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.131, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people”
“Don't try to sneak in through the window. Just come boldly onto stage, like come right through the door with your choice. Kill the judge in your head and just take action.”
“No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.”
“So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
“I tried to learn the violin for a while.”
“The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods.”
“[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow it just as it is necessary for the wheels of a clock to follow the weights and the spring that pulls them.”

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