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-- Abraham Lincoln

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“Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.”
“Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.”
“I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.”
“If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.”

Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”
“Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there's such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You have to understand the influence of greed. A player has to be selfish in the pursuit of the development of his skills, but he cannot be selfish when it comes time to blend them in with what's good for his team.”

Source : Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.80, U of Nebraska Press
“There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world”
“Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them”

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