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Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.: Robert Redford (1937 - )
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.: George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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How my achievements mock me!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got.: Allan Heinberg, Sex and the City, A 'Vogue' Idea, 2002
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), 1903
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.: George Bush (1924 - )
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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.: Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love," 1992
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.: David Russell
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.: Jean Nidetch
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