"Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas."
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"Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."
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"Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt."
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"You can't be more horrific than life itself."
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"Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices."
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"The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands."
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"It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried."
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"Friends are thieves of time."
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"For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another."
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"The folly of one man is the fortune of another."
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"It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it."
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"My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is."
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"There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome."
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"Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things"
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"There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried."
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"I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance."
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"When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting."
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"Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further."
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"An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact."
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"And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed."
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