"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture."

-- Thomas Paine

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“As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.”

Source : Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.56, Univ of California Press
“I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.”
“What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in visor fair, And cast her colours dyed deep in grain, To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign, And fitting gestures to her purpose frame, The guiltless man with guile to entertain?”
“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.”

Source : Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.19, Harper Collins
“I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.”
“On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.”
“Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)”

Source : Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.269, Simon and Schuster
“The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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