"Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill."

-- George Washington Carver

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“We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo city as a ghastly and alien city when it was really going through this period of mega-capitalist growth. It's a very, very, very powerful force, the photograph. People ask me why it has such an ability to captivate us. And I just don't know.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.”
“It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.”
“Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.”

Source : "UN Women's head Michelle Bachelet: A new superhero?". Interview with Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.
“You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.”
“Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.”
“I give no more paroles to British officers.”
“Every time I go out there I expect to win.”

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