"The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism."

-- Gordon Parks

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“I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.”
“Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.”
“Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.”
“Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.”
“A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.”
“The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.”

Source : Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.65, Health Research Books
“I had a will to win that come from being raised poor.”
“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”

Source : Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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