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• It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

  James Agee

  Eye, Past, Years

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• I never thought that Bill Clinton should be the president. When he was running to be the president of the United States, he said on over a hundred occasions, he said the following: He said, 'One of the great accomplishments while I was the governor of Arkansas, was to take my state in education from 50th to 49th.' And I thought, ' you know, Bill, you should keep that a secret.

  Lewis Black

  Running, Accomplishment, Secret

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• I got home from work today and took like a one hundred hour nap. No you did not. You'd be very sick if you were taking one hundred hour naps. That's a coma! If you said you took a coma after work I'd be able to follow the story.

  Dane Cook

  Home, Naps, Sick

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• In a way, it's like the photographer always has his vision of me. The pictures that I'm known for are not really my image, they're always the photographer's vision of me. I can look a hundred different ways, but what people see of me in pictures is not really my image.

  Kate Moss

  People, Vision, Different

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• I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!"

  Bill Hicks

  Mean, Usa, Iraq

  "Bill Hicks: Relentless". Documentary, Comedy, 1992.

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• You know, where I come from, an antique, to be called an antique, it has to be at least a hundred years old. That's a law: before you can call something an antique, it has to be a hundred years old. In L.A., something that's been around for a couple of weeks is an antique. It's true! People are like, Look at this old-fashioned iPod. Look at this! It's the size of a man's hand! Ha ha ha ha. Back then-back then, people thought Mel Gibson was just acting crazy. It was a very different time.

  Craig Ferguson

  Couple, Crazy, Men

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, People, Mars

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Years, Two

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

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• London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Car, People

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• I might want to do a hundred things in a given day, but I know I have to pick up my kids between 5 and 6. That is the most important thing. So I fit in everything else around that. I know what needs to be done, and then I know what I want to get done.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Kids, Important, Needs

  "Secrets Of The Most Productive People". Interview with Jeff Chu, www.fastcompany.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Eye, Ideas

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• I'm Jewish... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say.

  Andy Kindler

  Couple, Years, Holocaust

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• My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I learned a long time ago that if you're going to tell a story about your retarded sister, you need to mention she's retarded right off the bat or inevitably, at the end of the story, someone will say, What... is she, retarded? And then you have to go, Uh... yeah, she is. Followed by a lengthy, awkward silence.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Long, Silence, Awkward

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• I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.

  Horst Faas

  Heart, Expression, People

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• ... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

  Lev Manovich

  Photography, Technology, Reality

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• If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?

  Phil Stern

  Memorable, Two, Lucky

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• Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.

  Roy Stryker

  Communication, Stories, Pieces

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• Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.

  Ambrose of Optina

  Angel, Simplicity, Cleverness

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• We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Three, Particular

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.654, Discovery House

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• Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr., or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to hu­man beings is not examined in school?

  Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

  Art, Book, School

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• The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.

  Wilson Mizner

  Years, Lasts, Firsts

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• I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

  Eric Shinseki

  Order, Soldier, Would Be

  "Vets Affairs Pick Known For Contradicting Rumsfeld". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. January 13, 2009.

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• Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.

  Kinky Friedman

  Eight, Would Be, Cuban Cigars

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• What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

  Mother Teresa

  Vanity, People, Generosity

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• Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ninety Nine, Wish, Christianity

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