"I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers."

-- Ralph Ellison

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“Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs. Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way.”

Source : "Visual Research Methods". Book by Peter Hamilton, 2006.
“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Stephen G. Tallentyre, 1906.
“If not you, who? If not now, when?”
“Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.100, Allison & Busby
“I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.”
“No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 690), 1922.
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength”
“He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.”

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