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#1

“This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I owe an unpayable debt to all our military. Going forward let’s not send our servicemen and women off to war or conflict zones unless it is overwhelmingly justifiable and on moral high ground. The men of WWII were the greatest generation, perhaps Korea the forgotten, Vietnam the trampled, Cold War unsung and Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan vets underestimated. Every generation has proved itself to be worthy to stand up to the precedent of the greatest generation. Going back to the Revolution American soldiers have been the best in the world. Let’s all take a remembrance for all veterans who served or are serving, peace time or wartime and gone or still with us. 11/11/16 May God Bless America and All Veterans.”
― Thomas M Smith

tags: afghanistan, airforce, america, army, coast-guard, coastguard, cold-war, combat, courage, freedom, honor, independence, iraq, korea, marine-corp, marines, memorial, memorial-day, military, navy, pj-s, rangers, revolution, revolutionary, sacrifice, seals, selflessness, service, socom, sof, veteran, veterans, vietnam, war

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#2

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
― Steve Jobs

tags: apple-computer-inc, identity, independence, inner-voice, life, steve-jobs

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#3

“Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.”
― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

tags: attitude, character, independence, strong-woman

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#4

“Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: assertiveness, authenticity, being-yourself, brainwashed, confidence, courage, differing-perspectives, expressing-yourself, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, independence, individualism, peer-pressure, personalities, perspectives, reality, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, standing-out, stayingpositiveu-com, unique

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#5

“Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

tags: death-and-dying, ravens

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#6

“Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.”
― Now Is Good

tags: life-and-death

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#7

“All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru”
― Masashi Kishimoto

tags: decay, impermanence, life-and-death, naruto, orochimaru

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#8

“The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered...We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.”
― Elizabeth Edwards

tags: life-and-death

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#9

“I am a black bird, a Raven, I am Raven. I know and I am knowing—I know and see life and death, expansion and contraction and I do not shiver and cry—I am unafraid.

I am Raven. I am black as liquid night with wings and my eyes are stars to see by.

The light within me leads the way and it is revealed through my eyes and I am what lies between the dark and light.

I am the balance between.”
― H Raven Rose, Liquid Me: Poetry and Prose

tags: balance, dark-and-light, light, raven

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#10

“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: darkness, gollum, hobbit, riddle

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#11

“People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

tags: art, controversy, expression, graffiti, street-art

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#12

“Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.”
― Raymond Salvatore Harmon, BOMB: A Manifesto of Art Terrorism

tags: art-terrorism, graffiti, street-art

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#13

“The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

tags: guitar, music

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#14

“The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears.

But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He;s aiming for oblivion.”
― Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son

tags: guitar, music, oblivion

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#15

“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues and ended with a haunting solitary song with no lyrics.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

tags: blues, guitar, guitar-quotes, jazz, lyrics, rock-and-roll, song, soul

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#16

“Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to the ears. It’s truth in an otherwise dishonest world.”
― Moryah DeMott, Timeless: A Novel

tags: bade, davina, ears, guitar, moryah-demott, music, musical, romance, staccato, time, timeless, truth, world

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#17

“If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”
― Keith Richards, Life

tags: blues, guitar, keith-richards, music, rolling-stones

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#18

“There’s secrets hiding inside this six-string just waitin’ for somebody to find ‘em and turn ‘em into music.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

tags: guitar, guitar-quotes, music, musician-quotes, six-string

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#19

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
― Susan Sontag

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#20

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

tags: beauty, life, photo, photograph, photography, photos, picture, pictures

762 likes

#21

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange

tags: life, photography

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#22

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

tags: artist, camera, photography

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#23

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
― Ingmar Bergman

tags: art, dreaming, dreams, film, music, souls

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#24

“As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.”
― Iain M. Banks

tags: film, writing

20 likes

#25

“Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)”
― Manny Pacheco

tags: cinema, film, forgotten-hollywood, manny-pacheco, motion-pictures, movies

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#26

“If a picture is worth a thousand words then, film is immeasurable speech.”
― Chinyerim Alizor

tags: film, imagery

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#27

“Doing good in this world, and being kind and being honest and noble is really underrated. And I think you have... I think everyday people have enormous power, and they have enormous power for good, and if you're good to people, the world is a better place.”
― Tom Hiddleston

tags: doing-good, goodness, kindness, tom-hiddleston

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#28

“A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: being-good, book-quotes, doing-good, gentle, good, good-acts, goodness, goodwill, immortality, kind, kind-acts, kindness, kindness-quotes, kindness-to-others, life, living, living-forever, living-life, love, loving, memorable, moral, morality, remebered, righteousness, spirit, suzy-kassem

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#29

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”
― Jim Stovall

tags: doing-good, integrity

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#30

“There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: doing-good

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