"We grow small trying to be great."

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"Let each person decide his or her fate."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Beauty, love with truth, that is all there is."

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"Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Life cannot be exchange for anything."

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"Beauty is the brightness of being."

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"The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"The philosophy of a person speaks of what dictates or governs how and what someone believes."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way."

Age

"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh."

Love

"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light."

Trust

"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."

Sense

"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."

Hollywood

"But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years."

Time

"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era."

History

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"Let each person decide his or her fate."

"Beauty, love with truth, that is all there is."

"Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?"

"Life cannot be exchange for anything."

"Beauty is the brightness of being."

"The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish."

"The philosophy of a person speaks of what dictates or governs how and what someone believes."

"There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy."

"HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me."

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"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."

"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."

"Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft."

"We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way."

"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh."

"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light."

"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."

"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."

"But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years."

"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era."