The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.
~ Elliot Erwitt
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Pictures →
Work →
Machines →
If you fall in love with a machine there is something wrong with your love-life. If you worship a machine there is something wrong with your religion.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Uncompleted →
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
~ William James
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Malice →
Insolence is not logic; Epithets are the arguments of malice.
~ R.G. Ingerson
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Democracy →
The polis or gathering place for governing, the root of our modern politics, was nothing but a physical space that designated and enabled the conversational space required for true self-governing. The capacity for talking together constituted the foundation for democracy, far more fundamental than voting. As one ancient Greek philosopher noted, “When voting started, democracy ended.”
~ Peter M. Senge
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Missionaries →
Questions →
The only question that really matters, the only question whose correct answer can exert a civilizing influence on the future specialist, is the question asked by Buddha and Jesus, by Lao-Tsu and Socrates, by Job and Aeschylus, and Chaucer and Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, by every philosopher, every mystic, every great artist: Who am I and what, if anything, can I do about it?
~ Aldous Huxley
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Well-composed →
Noticing →
All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.
~ Elliott Erwitt
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