You don't take a photograph, you make it.
- Ansel Adams - In Art
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams - In Art
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
- Ansel Adams - In Art
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
- Ansel Adams - In Art
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
- Ansel Adams - In Art
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
- Ansel Adams - In Art
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Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
- Scott Adams - In Business
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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
- Scott Adams - In Business
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams - In Experience
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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
- John Quincy Adams - In History
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To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
- John Quincy Adams - In History
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Henry B. Adams - In History
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Life is wasted on the living.
- Douglas Adams - In Life
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A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
- Joey Adams - In Marriage
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
- Ansel Adams - In Nature
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
- Ansel Adams - In Nature
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams - In Politics
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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- Henry B. Adams - In Politics
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams - In Religion
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
- Douglas Adams - In Religion
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry B. Adams - In Science
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- John Adams - In War
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