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Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system of… — Hiroshi Sugimoto
The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or… — Suzan-Lori Parks
The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. — Harlan Coben
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual… — Amy Goodman
The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude… — Azar Nafisi
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's… — Augusten Burroughs
The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income. — Unknown Author
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline. — Jasmine Guinness
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives. — Idries Shah
Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature… — Georg Cantor
The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results. — John Hamill
I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone. — John Nolte
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember… — Nikolai Berdyaev
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled… — Fred Hoyle
I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work. — Etty Hillesum
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of… — H. L. Mencken
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts… — Penn Jillette
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as… — Ouida
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. — Anne Tyler
There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance. — Robert Breault
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's… — Roy Blount, Jr.
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance. — Albert Einstein

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