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Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There… — Robert Heinecken
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. — Edmund Burke
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd. — Albert Camus
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life… — Wendell Berry
When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't… — Kingsley Amis
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? — Horace
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
The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight. — Carly Fiorina
Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later. — Marquis de Sade
There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one… — James Bryce
If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you. — Ralph Nader
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre. — Harold Innis
There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality… — Margaret Thatcher
It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations… — Jerry Mander
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists… — Henry Hazlitt
Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer? A real engineer build bridges,… — Unknown Author
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have… — Theda Skocpol
The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely… — Peter Costello
If you fall out of favor, you quickly stop being part of the conversation. But it can take one great project to turn things around.… — Chris O'Donnell
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. — E. W. Howe
We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts… — Mary Robinson
I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest… — Hendrik Tennekes

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