"The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom."

-- Dorothy L. Sayers

#Art Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Bully Quotes

“I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great medium for that. It happens in an instant, but it gives you hours or days of time to reflect on things. Itâ€™s a beautiful system, this game of photography, to see in an instant and go back and think about later on. Itâ€™s pure philosophy. And poetry.”
“The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.”

Source : R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.238, Verso Books
“There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
“Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.”

Source : William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.
“The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.”
“Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.”
“I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.”
“I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.”

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