Quote by Brooks Atkinson
In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninte

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. – Brooks Atkinson

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The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking – and looking. – Brooks Atkinson

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Photography
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. – Brooks Atkinson

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This nation was built by men who took risks — pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. – Brooks Atkinson

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Risk
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Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. – H.L. Mencken

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Perspective

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, “by not swallowing them.” – Charles Edward Montague, Dramatic Values

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Perspective

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun. – Meher Baba

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Perspective

The answer to poverty is not charity, the solution to abortion is not laws, the key to saving the environment is not recycling. As Thoreau so wisely noted, we must strike at the root, not hack at the branches. – Terri Guillemets, “Comfort is not always the best medicine,” 1995

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Perspective

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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had. – James Brown

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respect

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. – Bruce Barton

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alone

Its not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. – Robert Plant

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Beauty

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. – William Westmoreland

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