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“To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.”
Emo Philips
“If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.”
Edward R. Murrow
“A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends”
Cyril Connolly
“That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything”
William Shakespeare
“If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.”
William S. Burroughs
“It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.”
Winnie the Pooh
“Taking the first footstep with a good thought the second with a good word and the third with a good deed I entered Paradise”
Zoroaster
“Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.”
Bobby Unser
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
Albert Einstein
