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“I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.”

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Duane Michals is a renowned photographer, born on February 18, 1932. His work is known for its unique narrative style and profound insights into human emotions. more

“If you look at a photograph, and you think, 'My isn't that a beautiful photograph,' and you go on to the next one, or 'Isn't that nice light?' so what? I mean what does it do to you or what's the real value in the long run? What do you walk away from it with? I mean, I'd much rather show you a photograph that makes demands on you, that you might become involved in on your own terms or be perplexed by.”

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Author:Duane Michals

“You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.”

Art School Term Teach Contradiction Art School

Author:Duane Michals

“Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.”

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Author:Lemmy Kilmister

“The new year on which we are about to enter is unopened, and we know not what shall befall us; but if we follow Christ we need have no fear. So let us leave the old year with gratitude to God for its mercies, and with penitence for its failures and sins; and let us enter the new year with earnest resolve in Christ's name to make it the holiest and most beautiful year we have ever lived.”

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Author:J.R. Miller

“Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.”

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Author:John Mason Brown

“Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?”

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Author:Eugene Field

“Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.”

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Author:Jeff Greenfield

“Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.”

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Author:Jeff Greenfield

“It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.”

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Author:Jeff Greenfield

“With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.”

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Book:A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014

Source: A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014

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