"The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods."

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Source : Paul Strand (1971). “Paul Strand: a Retrospective Monograph: The years 1915-1946”

Paul Strand

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“Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.”

Source : Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.340, Lulu Press, Inc
“The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.”

Source : Source: transadvocate.com
“Upon your shattered ruins where This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.”

Source : "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.
“I never use notes, they interfere with me.”
“Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems therefore to take place outside it. That is why those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology: ideology never says, 'I am ideological.'”
“To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.”
“Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.”

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