Ansel Adams Quotes
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
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I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
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Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.
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An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happen that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discovers the truth, because of his own efforts.
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.
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Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.
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Aggression against life and property can only damage the image of a peaceful Islam.
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For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?
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[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
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I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.
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I have such an image of a mafioso.
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The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
