- There are moments in our lives when painful feelings mingle with our experiences. (alexander von humboldt)
- What drives a bird so far off its course…? (alexander von humboldt)
- Even the desert is animated when you see some trace of man’s work in it. (alexander von humboldt)
- A determined will and an active perseverance are not always sufficient to overcome every obstacle. (alexander von humboldt)
- It was during all this horror that Beck remembers the fear coming over him: "While Doc Nall was there with me, working on Russell, fear, real fear, hit me. Fear like I had never known before. Fear comes, and once you recognize it and accept it, it passes just as fast as it comes, and you don't really think about it anymore. You just do what you have to do, but you learn the real meaning of fear and life and death..." - (p. 110 of We Were Soldiers Once... And Young)
- "The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander" T.E. Lawrence 1920
- "Show me a man who thinks he's objective, and i'll show you a man who's deceiving himself." - Henry Luce
- "As our minds become more deeply aware of their own subjectivism, we find a zest in objective method that is not otherwise there." - Walter Lippmann
- "...the frailty of human nature requires honest and persist attention..." - Charles Merz and Walter Lippmann
- "When you consider how profoundly dependent the modern world is upon its news, the frailty of human nature becomes an argument not for complacency and apology, but for eternal vigilance." - Charles Merz and Walter Lippmann
- "Have you ever stopped to think what it means when a man acquires the scientific spirit? It means that he is ready to let things be what they may be, whether or not he wants them to be that way. It means that he has conquered his desire to have the world justify his prejudices. It means that he has learned to live without the support of any creed...There are not many men of this sort in any age." - Walter Lippmann
- "...Objectivity as an ideal has been used and is still used, even disingenuously, as a camouflage for power. But its source lies deeper, in a need to cover over neither authority nor privilege, but the disappointment in the modern gaze." - Michael Schudson (p. 159, Discovering the News)
- "Where is Jimmy Hare? This cannot be a war. Jimmy Hare is not here." (on Journalists' comments during the Mexican Revolution, p. 227 in Photography textbook)
- "...if your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough" - Robert Capa
- who is the government now? - Pierre Salinger
- "Where is Jimmy Hare? This cannot be a war. Jimmy Hare is not here."
oct 26 2008 ∞
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