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Quote by Susan Sontag
To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortalit

To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. – Susan Sontag

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famous
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Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag

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alone
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. – Susan Sontag

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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. – Ulysses S. Grant

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One must learn a different… sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. – Sister Mary Paul

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At a time when nobody thought wed ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States. – Mitt Romney

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The first time you say something, its heard. The second time, its recognized, and the third time its learned. – John C. Maxwell

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