"Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world."

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Source : Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press

Beaumont Newhall

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“The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.”

Source : Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”
“I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.”
“People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.”
“The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .”
“Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.”
“Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.”
“The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.”
“The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.”

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