"I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition."

-- Eve Arnold

#Mirrors Quotes #People Quotes #Littles Quotes

“But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause of complaint which has been influential in any quarter, to bring about the crisis which is now upon us; if any State or any people have made the troubles growing out of this question, a pretext for agitation instead of a cause of honest complaint, Virginia can have no sympathy whatever, in any such feeling, in any such policy, in any such attempt. It is the slavery question. Is it not so?...”
“Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.”
“I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.”

Source : "The spilling fields". "Background Briefing" with Wendy Carlisle, www.abc.net.au. July 4, 2010.
“Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.”
“The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.”

Source : Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.122, Open Road Media
“We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.”
“It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.”
“I am a trained hypnotherapist, yes, but it's more like a guided meditation. Most of the people I take under struggle with stress in their lives and have unbalanced sleeping patterns, so what I do enables my patients to regain energy and peacefulness on a subconscious level which affects their conscious mind.”

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