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Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless.… — John Szarkowski
Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was… — Richard Avedon
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still… — Lord Acton
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a… — Siegbert Tarrasch
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents — Unknown Author
The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated. — Jimmy Armfield
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots… — Rene Dubos
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to… — Wendell Berry
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the… — Carl Sagan
By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of… — Colin Fletcher
When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt… — Barack Obama
Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you… — Gary Gait
And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man… — John Milton
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do… — Robert A. Heinlein
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion:… — Maria Montessori
To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable -… — Lawrence Welk
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent to a senseless… — Unknown Author
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. — Quintilian
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to… — Heinz Hopf

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