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"Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more."
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"The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!"

"I would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings."

"The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot."

"This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

"It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."


"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."


"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."


"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."


"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
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