"Photography is one big scrapbook of your life."

-- Lisa Jones

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“I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those who desire the utter reality, will most assuredly have it. We must not be afraid to announce it to refugees, slum dwellers, saddened prisoners, angry prophets. Now and then we must even announce it to ourselves. In this prison of now, in this cynical and sophisticated age, someone must believe in joy.”
“I donâ€™t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.”
“Sometimes I suspected Ryan was merely visiting the real world, on vacation from his permanent residence in la-la land.”
“Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1918). “The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy”
“Most of life is hell. Itâ€™s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams donâ€™t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But youâ€™ll never get to the next great moment if you donâ€™t keep going. So thatâ€™s what I do. I keep going.”
“Where laws end, tyranny begins.”

Source : William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387
“The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ...”
“You realize mortality is everywhere.”

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