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“In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.”

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.”

“He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all; for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God’s benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.”

World Whole Reality Christ Sin Common Favors Whole World

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Romans (Annotated Edition)

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Romans (Annotated Edition)

“A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.”

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Author:Emile Durkheim

“The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.”

Men World Want Should Doe Eye Suffering Turns Common Comfort His Eyes Despise Longevity Amusement World History Common Man

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children, a tendency to believe what you're told, a tendency to fear your own death, a tendency to wish to see your loved ones who have died, to wish to see them again, a wish to understand where you came from, where the world came from, all these psychological predispositions, under the right cultural conditions, tend to lead to people believing in things for which there is no evidence.”

People Ifs World Believe Children Belief Wish Powerful Common Conditions Authority Evidence Universal Died Tendencies Psychological Loved Ones Supernatural Beings

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.”

“Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.”

World Has Beens Facts Problem Differences Common Numbers Cold Grim Public Health Disturbance Psychiatric Health Problems Postpartum Depression Common Cold Economic Depression

Book:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

“There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies”

“What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.”

World Reality Views Common Evolution Our World Satellites

Author:Olivier Theyskens

“We understand that in this globalized world we all need to work together. As the Pope says in his encyclical, "Laudato Si," the Earth is our common home.”

World Needs Home Earth Together Common Working Together Pope

Author:Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

“For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.”

World Humans Has Beens Self Common Human Nature Higher Determination Distinctive Vastness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

“Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve?”

World Faces Stars Common Wonder Mankind This World Highest Spite Resolve Can Not Bricks Enigma

Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.”

“The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.”

Source: The Renaissance

“Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.”

World Way Children Born Common Impact Average Population Developing Destructive

Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.”

Source: The new peoplemaking

“It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood, or just felt like going about in a white world. The reason was simple enough: if a black man is alone or with other black men, he is a threat to whites. But if he is with children, then he is harmless, adorable.”

Ifs Men World Children Reason Enough Felt Black Simple White Walks Common Practice Threat My Children Neighborhood Shopping Adorable

Author:Gerald Early

“...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.”

World May Hard Motivational Success Leadership Common Secret Leader This World Hard Work Grateful Finals Be Grateful Suggestions Commonplace Secret To Success

Author:Toyotomi Hideyoshi

“When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.”

Thinking World Writing Whole Stories Values Easy Hours Common Practice Alive Solitude Quiet Letters Whole World Thoughtful Lap Inner Life

Author:Vivian Gornick

“In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.”

People World Humans Bigs Together Causes Perfect Common Human Nature Discrimination Bigotry Gathering Messy Banner A Perfect World Gathering Together

Author:Frank Bruni

“All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the boards, firing away at the rapt groundlings with his blank verses, not less of a word-slinger and spellbinder than the Bard himself and therefore not to be considered too curiously on such matters as relevance, coherence, consistency, propriety, sanity, common decency.”

“Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from.”

World Wells Country Courses Common Example Television Communication Internet Draws Around The World Airline Transportation Transport Rail Mining

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.”

World Way Humans Facts Belief Human Beings Common Evidence Argument Secure Willingness Openness Permit

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much that seems so counter to what the world is like. Many of the things that I'm going to describe make so much more common sense than these notions that seem counter to what one's eyes see every day.”

World Believe Seems Eye Common Quality Generations Teaching Students Economics Notion Common Sense Tribute

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.”

Men World Way Law Choices Evil Sound Common Secret Democracy Path Walking Ethics Fairs Fellows Good And Evil Fellow Man Common Law

Book:All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

Source: All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

“If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.”

Ifs Men World Mind May Ends Government Moving Law Common Fashion Produce Lessons Tasks Essence Bases Educational Secure Sufficient Interpretation Righteousness Cooperation World Government

Author:H. G. Wells

“The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean.”

World Heart Jesus Church Love Is Common And Love Institutions Truth And Love

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never can!" - a declaration which, however common, in spirit if not in substance, is, when one comes to analyse it, unparalleled in its arrogance of blasphemy. That for a single offence, however grave, a whole life should be blasted, is a doctrine repugnant even to Nature's own dealings in the visible world.”

Ifs World Should May Whole Used Spirit Language Sex Common Forgiving Whole Life Graves Doctrine Substance Fallen Arrogance Visible Declaration Blasphemy Offence Dealings

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.”

People World Way Common Family

Author:Jean Illsley Clarke

“Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.”

“Our common goal should be the development of a system of equal security for all governments. System adequate [to deal with] modern threats, built on regional and global nonaligned bases. Only then can we ensure peace and tranquility in the world.”

World Should Government Peace Goal Deals Common Modern Security Development Equal Built Bases Threat Tranquility Adequate Peace And Tranquility Common Goal

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Never call your broker on Monday. Out of courtesy and common sense, wait until Tuesday. A good broker is focused on the opening of the market - at home and around the world - and on getting back into a business frame of mind after the weekend.”

World Mind Home Waiting Common Focused Common Sense Opening Around The World Weekend Monday Courtesy Tuesday Frame Of Mind Brokers

Author:Nancy Dunnan

“We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods”

Thinking Men World Kind Spirit Common Doubt Imagine Happenings Common Sense Rational Shock Our World Sanity Primitive Accustomed Fetish Primitive Man

Author:Carl Jung

“The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.”

World Earth Common Rocks Movement All Things Constant Egypt Pyramids Caucasus

Book:The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

“Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.”

People World Common Demand Resources Our Time Heritage Declaration

Author:Jacque Fresco

“We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt.”

“I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.”

Thinking World Reason Common Focus Taught Core Reason Why Fixing

Author:Eve Ensler

“The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching into songwriting. But what they have in common is that they're both ways to tap into the mysterious parts of our world.”

World Way Philosophy Levels Common Teaching Mysterious Songwriting Our World Academic Subconscious Integrated

Author:Steve Weinstein

“I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility.”

Thinking World Kind Ideas Country Common Wonderful Possibility Conflict Unions Hopeful Cooperation European Union Interdependence Common Ground Individualization

Author:Tavis Smiley

“Music is my way to shine back and express positive vibrations for a common healing. It's similar to farming, or surfing, or yoga. Before world peace, we have to have inner peace and music helps us get there.”

World Way Helping Common Healing Music Is Yoga Shining Inner Peace My Way Surfing Farming Vibrations Positive Vibrations

Author:Jason Mraz

“The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.”

Ifs World Would Be Action Justice Common Citizens Definitions Guides Paradise Our Thoughts Global Citizen Peace And Justice Thoughts And Actions Definition Of Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.”

Source: De profundus

“In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common”

Thinking Knows World Believe Truth Lasts Common Analysis Possessed

Book:The Meaning of Truth

Source: The Meaning of Truth

“Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.”

World Common

Author:Julie Delpy

“I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a possibility that we might all be redeemed, that hope deferred makes the soul sick, that our humanity is fragile, funny, common, crazy, full of the longing for love, the failure of love.”

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Author:Anthony Minghella

“What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.”

“Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves - it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.”

World Love Mean Together Night Hours Church Common Habit Taste Worship Mass Letters Embrace Lips Phrases Formal Saturday Ceremony Saturday Night Love Means Words Love

Book:A Burnt Out Case

Source: A Burnt Out Case

“He doesn't have demons. He's not Batman, he doesn't struggle with inner turmoil. The nature of this character is that he puts himself last and helps the common good. So he could easily slip into a world of boredom, The blessing and curse of Captain America is that he doesn't have that fancy an ability. He doesn't live in another world, or turn green. He doesn't have bells and whistles, he doesn't shoot missiles. He punches and kicks.”

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