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“The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.”

Giving Art Real Reality Roles Destiny Taken Objects Photography Including Reports Works Of Art Accurate Art Photography Letdowns

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that's the critical factor.”

People Ifs Persons Deals Roles Support Objects Fairs Critical Factors Nfl Treatment Herds

Book:The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.”

Needs Littles Attention Roles Objects Program Tasks Direct Function Paid Profit Immense Procedures Prestige

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.”

Ifs Men Humans Kind Force Wish Goal Realizing My Own Decision Animal Roles Subjects Policy Objects Depends Decided Instruments Slave Incapable Doers Conceiving External Forces

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.”

World Persons Mother Sex Christ Church Roles Wife Teaching Identity Objects Daughter Secular Mistaken Wives And Mothers

Book:The Healing Presence: Curing the Soul Through Union with Christ

Source: The Healing Presence: Curing the Soul Through Union with Christ

“In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.”

World Trying Play Use Roles Destiny Influence Objects Trump Involved Active Cards Helpless Negotiation Our Destiny World Power

Author:Alija Izetbegovic

“It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.”

Ends Roles Effects Objects Capable Standing Symbolic

Author:Andre Breton

“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.”

“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”

Long Country Fighting Term Roles Movement Objects Active Communism Long Term Communist Short Term

Book:No Easy Walk to Freedom

Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom