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212 quotes by 189 authors

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize,… — Andre Breton
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are… — Desmond Tutu
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that… — E. O. Wilson
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed… — Bob Brown
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? — Yevgeny Zamyatin
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the… — Michio Kaku
I've never worried about anything in my life a fraction of the way I worry about my daughter. It's much more than hoping people like… — Michael Shannon
I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they… — Jeff Bezos
Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny… — D. James Kennedy
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON,… — Robert Sutton Harrington
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had… — Richard Dawkins
What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs. — Steven Chu
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the… — William Zinsser
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second.… — Sebastiao Salgado
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay — Milton Friedman

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