"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
-Susan Sontag
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"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.“
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"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."
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"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."
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"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
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"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
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"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
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"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."
-Henry A. Kissinger
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"It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job."
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"It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work."
-Harry S. Truman
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"Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."
-Harry S. Truman
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"A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!"
-Selena Gomez
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