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You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I… — Joe Pass
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and… — Ruth Bernhard
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone… — Richard Avedon
It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he… — Kevin Keegan
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding… — Edward Weston
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration… — Alexey Brodovitch
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always… — Abraham Lincoln
The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. — Thaddeus Stevens
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich… — Louis Agassiz
Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle… — John Dewey
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and… — Galileo Galilei
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk… — John William Strutt
Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an… — B. C. Forbes
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me. — Edward Carpenter
Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort. — Mahatma Gandhi
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems. — Nelson Rockefeller
One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly,… — Yoshida Kenko
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine.… — Victor Hugo
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of… — Isak Dinesen

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