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Henri Cartier-Bresson called the taking of a good photograph a decisive moment. ‘Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera,’
These days we can take hundreds pf photos and store many thousands on our mobile phones. So do we really need these decisive moments anymore? Or is it just a case of click and hope, and then never look at your photos again.
“You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.”
― Green Mars
― Green Mars
“We will go out into the world and plant gardens and orchards to the horizons, we will build roads through the mountains and across the deserts, and terrace the mountains and irrigate the deserts until there will be garden everywhere, and plenty for all, and there will be no more empires or kingdoms, no more caliphs, sultans, emirs, khans, or zamindars, no more kings or queens or princes, no more quadis or mullahs or ulema, no more slavery and no more usury, no more property and no more taxes, no more rich and no more poor, no killing or maiming or torture or execution, no more jailers and no more prisoners, no more generals, soldiers, armies or navies, no more patriarchy, no more caste, no more hunger, no more suffering than what life brings us for being born and having to die, and then we will see for the first time what kind of creatures we really are.”
― The Years of Rice and Salt
― The Years of Rice and Salt
“What we need is equality without conformity.”
― Green Mars
― Green Mars
“Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.”
― Green Mars
― Green Mars
“Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.”
― Blue Mars
― Blue Mars
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