"Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future."

-- Bill Brandt

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“Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a clichÃ©. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experiment and guesswork.”
“When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.”
“Every law is an infraction of liberty.”

Source : 1789 An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.
“The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.”

Source : Swami Abhedananda (2005). “Vedanta Philosophy”, p.34, 1st World Publishing
“The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind.”
“Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.”
“But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.”
“If our minds and hearts are into it, we can be a heck of a team. We can beat anybody.”

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