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“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”
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“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”
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“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”
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“Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.”
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“There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.”
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“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”
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“Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.”
Source : "French prime minister concedes". www.cnn.com. June 1, 1997. 
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“You can't convince anyone of anything. You can only give them the right information, so that they convince themselves.”
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“It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right”
Source : "Trend Following: Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets". Book by Michael Covel, 2009.
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“Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.”
