All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. - Blaise Pascal

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Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.

Blaise Pascal

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

Inability, Men, Roots, Sit, Sorrow

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

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Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Beautiful, Meaningful, Kindness, Make, Lips, Image

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Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.

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A picture of my existence. . . would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow. . . stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

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Renee Fleming

Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.

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At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

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I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

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