Robert Adam quotes
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“If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.”
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“We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.”
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“By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.”
-- Robert Adam
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“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”
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“It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.”
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“We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.”
Source : "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2004.
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“Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.”
Source : Veto message of Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882.
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“Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.”
Source : "Arthur Schawlow" by Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes. "Biographical Memoirs", Volume 83, p. 202, www.nap.edu. 2003.
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