Edmundo Desnoes Quotes
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
Edmundo Desnoes
Quotes to Explore
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The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.
Bill Gates
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Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go.
Debra Searle
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The taste for luxuries increases with marvelous rapidity under indulgence.
George Payne Rainsford James
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Young people, especially young women, often ask me for advice. Here it is, valeat quantum. Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.
Amby Burfoot
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Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.
Ben Lerner
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People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.
Wole Soyinka
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce
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Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.
Ana Monnar
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With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.
Amanda Foreman
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Nobodoy can make anybody else learn anything. You can't make them.Any more than if you are a gardener you make flowers grow. You don't make the flowers grow. You don't stick the petals on the leaves and paint it. The flower grows itself. Your job if you are any good at it, is to provide the optimal conditions for growth.
Ken Robinson
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To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.
Charles E. Fuller
