"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it."

-- John Berger

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“A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.”

Source : Gayl Jones (2016). “The Healing”, p.30, Beacon Press
“There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.”
“Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??”
“It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.”

Source : Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.35, Rowman & Littlefield
“It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.”
“If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, youâ€™re not accomplishing very much.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 3, 2009
“To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him.”
“As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.”

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