"I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images."

-- Elliott Erwitt

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“Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.”

Source : Samuel Horsley (1827). “Sermons”, p.104
“I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.”
“And the whole is greater than the part.”

Source : "Euclid's Elements, Book I, Common Notion 8". Book by Euclid,
“The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future.”
“Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.”
“My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.”
“I can't exactly describe it, but as I looked at the putt, the hole looked as big as a wash tub, I suddenly became convinced I couldn't miss. All I tried to do was keep the sensation by not questioning it.”
“Hot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your ***** are like Chinese New Year fireworks.”

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