"Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront."

-- Edward Abbey

#Charity Quotes #Spontaneous Quotes #Affront Quotes

“There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: itâ€™s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.”

Source : Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.138, BookBaby
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”
“In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.”

Source : Clinton Scollard (1916). “Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic”
“I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.”
“Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.”
“Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.”
“I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.”
“The National Security Agencyâ€™s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesnâ€™t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”

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