Margaret Bourke-White Quotes
To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
Quotes to Explore
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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Form follows beauty.
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In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.
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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
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... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.
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The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
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My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
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People forget that I was married. I love that, Will he get married? I don't talk about it because I don't think about it. I don't ever question other peoples' versions of how they live their lives or what they do.
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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?
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I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.
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The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
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To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
