"In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing and that you can't answer, and you haven't many references, and you don't know the law. Neither is it easy to find and know the subjects for portraits or comfortable to make such picture when you cannot apply an anesthesia of small talk."

-- Robert Adams

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“It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.”
“Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.”
“Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.”
“Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.”

Source : "Evolution Is a Spiritual Process". Interview with Anthony Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2011.
“Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”

Source : Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
“Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.”
“Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me"Â me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.”
“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.”

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