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Berenice Abbott

"The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography."

-- Berenice Abbott

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“You can't have bravery without fear...”
“We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.”
“Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.”

Source : "Shut up, Spain's king tells Chavez". news.bbc.co.uk. November 10, 2007.
“I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.48
“If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?”
“One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.”
“JUST LIKE CANDY is a delicious, decadent treat.”

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