"I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop."

-- Ansel Adams

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“It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.”
“If a train doesnâ€™t stop at your station, itâ€™s simply because itâ€™s not your train. Donâ€™t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but thereâ€™s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesnâ€™t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.”
“Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.”
“...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?”

Source : Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.7, Random House
“Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.”
“Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works.”
“There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.”
“Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of the soul and begin looking for substances to replace the flow.”

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