"The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization."

-- Paul Strand

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“Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.”
“To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the FÃ¼hrer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution. Although both courses of action emigration and evacuation, must, of course, be considered as nothing more than... temporary expedients, they do help to provide practical experience which should be of great importance in view of the coming EndlÃ¶sung (Final Solution) of the Jewish question.”

Source : Speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin, on January 20, 1942. "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken: The "Final Solution". Book by A. J. Mayer, p. 304, 1990.
“According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.”
“We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins
“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

Source : "Pathway to Purpose: Women Answer God's Call to Leadership: A Workbook". Book by Kathrine Giske, 1999.
“If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.”
“Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.”

Source : David Gemmell (2011). “Bloodstone”, p.150, Del Rey
“Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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