"I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge."

-- Charles Hard Townes

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“So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.”

Source : "Why we travel" by Jonah Lehrer, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.
“For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.”
“To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.”

Source : Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”
“I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.”
“He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.”
“Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?”
“They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.”
“I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.”

Source : Interview with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 11, 2005.

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