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"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

"Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do."

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."

"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."

"You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you."

"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."

"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

"The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence."

"Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century."

"At Wabash, everybody sinks or swims together-everybody, even our salespeople. They aren't on commission. They participate in the same compensation system as everybody else."

"We are punished by our sins, not for them."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

"Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden."

"You are the music while the music lasts."

"Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."