"My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding."

-- W. Eugene Smith

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“It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.”
“Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.”
“Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.”

Source : Reinhard Bendix (1990). “Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology”, p.49, Univ of California Press
“I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.”
“A star on top will complete all the scenery!”
“A fact is not a truth until you love it.”

Source : Shelby Foote, William C. Carter (1989). “Conversations with Shelby Foote”, p.248, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.”
“Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.”

Source : "Actor Allison McAtee: The best in everyone, being a crybaby, and practicing japa meditation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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