"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."

-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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“It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.”
“I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.”
“If you have no obstacles in your own mind, then outer obstacles will not hinder you or cause you worry.”
“I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.”
“Death frees from the fear of dying”
“For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also exponents of a doctrine of mystery: Being or the 'well-spring' of everything is, for Heidegger, ineffable, just as what Merleau-Ponty called 'Flesh' is for him.”
“The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his cynicism is merely an expression of the fact that he has lost courage and is beaten.”
“Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.”

Source : Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis

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