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Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

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Great necessities call out great virtues.

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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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Reputations are created every day and every minute.

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I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

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We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

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