"It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion."

-- Tertullian

“Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.”
“Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.”

Source : "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.
“There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.”

Source : "The MH Interview: Mark Wahlberg". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2013.
“You continue to build and work on new things, and continue to beat offensive linemen, week in and week out.”

Source : "The Shutdown Corner Interview: Ndamukong Suh". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. June 30, 2011.
“We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we tell ourselves stories-about ourselves,but maybe also all these stories about other people, about characters-as a way to hide from how small we are.”
“Every ball that is kicked, Martin O'Neill will be literally kicking it”
“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.”

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