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"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
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"And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed."

"There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative."

"Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it."

"But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by."

"The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts."

"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."

"Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution."

"When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations."
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"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."

"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."

"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."

"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."

"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."

"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation."
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