Quote by Ansel Adams
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. – Ansel Adams

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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. – Ansel Adams

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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. – Ansel Adams

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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. – Ansel Adams

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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to ones reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. – Democritus

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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. – Franz Liszt

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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Im an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy – at least I think Im funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself. – Shaquille ONeal

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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. – Arthur Smith

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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. – Eric Hoffer

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