"the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on."

-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#Encounters Quotes

“It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I donâ€™t like to quote myself but unfortunately everybody I know who should be quoting me is dead.”
“This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.”
“Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.”

Source : Fernand Braudel (1995). “The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II”, p.901, Univ of California Press
“This is really a twin tragedy, both for the people who were misled over there, and for those of us who were misled over here.”
“We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.”
“The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.”
“Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.”

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