"Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth."

-- Robert Orben

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“A photographic session is a joint, interpersonal exchange, a kind of creative encounter session at a high level of intensity. For me, photography is more a process of creating an experience than one of looking for pictures.”
“One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals for food/profit/using toxic chemicals such as pesticides/industrial wastes, will accelerate the extinction of plants/animals and the result will be a more hostile environment for man.”
“I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a third-rate actor. It's a job, and I'm dedicated in my way. I enjoy it. I'm serious about it. But if it doesn't come off, I'm not going to die.”
“You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do.”

Source : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.75, Macmillan
“We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.”

Source : "The Blessings of Atheism". www.nytimes.com. Jane 5, 2013.
“I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.”
“I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.”

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