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John Berger

"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."

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"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

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"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

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"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

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Amber Hurdle

"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

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Amber Hurdle

"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

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"God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

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