August Sander Quotes
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.
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Kleenex would have made a mint today.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
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I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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A photograph can look any way.
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I know what it's like to feel hopeless and to feel like you're not good enough just because of where you're from. I know what it's like to be profiled and to be abused by the police. I know what it's like to be racially profiled, treated unjustly and abused by the police just because of how you look.
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I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.
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This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.
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The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.
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It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
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I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.
