"What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?"

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Philip Sidney

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“It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.”
“What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.”
“The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with a certain amount of reverence. It is all about the kind of lens you choose, the kind of film stock you useâ€¦ exactly the sort of perfection of the camera. Whereas, the professional the real professional â€“ treats the camera with unutterable disdain. They pick up the camera and sling it aside. Because they know itâ€™s the eye and the brain that count, not the mechanism that gets between them and the subject that counts.”
“The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.”
“There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.”

Source : "Bernie Goldberg on New York Times Editor Insulting the Eucharist and Media Hype of Hurricane Irene". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2011.
“When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself.”
“God is real unless declared integer”
“I won't tell you how many hours a day I work because you wouldn't believe it. But don't worry; I am in bed at 11 p.m., sleep well and get up early, without an alarm clock.”

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