"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."

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"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"I am born to win."

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."

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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."

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"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."

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"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work."

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"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."

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"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object."

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