Jacob August Riis quotes
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“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.”
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“This will remain so after Hurricane Katrina disappears from the front pages of our newspapers. Long ago. it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. '... It did not know because it did not care... until some flagrant outrage on decency and the health of the community aroused it to noisy but ephemeral indignation.”
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“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
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“Some defeats are only installments to victory.”
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“Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.”
-- Jacob August RiisSource : Jacob August Riis (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”
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“Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.”
-- Jacob August RiisSource : Jacob August Riis (1973). “Jacob Riis revisited: poverty and the slum in another era”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
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“The slum is the measure of civilization.”
-- Jacob August RiisSource : "Introducing 'Breakdown: Americans on the Edge'” by Timothy L. O’Brien, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.
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“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.”
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“I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be.”
-- Jacob August RiisSource : Jacob August Riis (1901). “The Making of an American”
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Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
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Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com
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“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
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