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ML Hart

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Russell Baker

August 11, 2018 By Martha

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When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly – with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as you shout, whisper, pause, wave your arms, roll your eyes, wrinkle your brow. In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. It exists to serve you. Don’t be bullied into serving it.

Albert Einstein

August 10, 2018 By Martha

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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Julia Cameron

July 31, 2018 By Martha

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Worried about playing the fool, we forget how to simply play.

Ursula K. Le Guin

July 30, 2018 By Martha

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No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, You cannot get back to seeing the part as the whole.

Stella Reinwald

July 29, 2018 By Martha

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Words are great, but seeing is more primal than language and smelling more primal still.

Bertrand Russell

July 28, 2018 By Martha

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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

Josh Billings

July 27, 2018 By Martha

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There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.

Josephine Hart

July 27, 2018 By Martha

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I always recognize the forces that will shape my life. I let them do their work. Sometimes they tear through my life like a hurricane. Sometimes they simply shift the ground under me, so that I stand on different earth, and something or someone has been swallowed up. I steady myself, in the earthquake. I lie down, and let the hurricane pass over me. I never fight. Afterward I look Josephine HartRead More

Federico García Lorca

July 26, 2018 By Martha

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What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?

Leonardo da Vinci

July 25, 2018 By Martha

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Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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I hadn’t backed a KS project in a long time, but couldn’t resist @MarcwilsonPhoto’s book -
I was drawn not only to the subject matter, but to his description of gathering the stories. Multiple years, locations, countries, people, languages (did he bring a translator?) ... 1/5

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Excellent thread - truth in photography.
Comments offer advice and encouragement... for once, it's okay to read the comments!

Shaun 🇯🇲🇧🇧🇬🇧@shotbyshaun

Photographers don't talk about comfortable footwear enough.

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Love it - we *all* know someone like this!

Susie Dent 💙@susie_dent

Word of the day is 'snoutband' (19th century): someone who consistently interrupts a conversation in order to contradict or correct the speaker.

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I upped my pledge from signed book to signed book with print... thanks for offering the prints signed as well!

I upped my pledge from signed book to signed book with print... thanks for offering the prints signed as well!
Marc Wilson@MarcwilsonPhoto

5/5 The Kickstarter is now live for my new photobook 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1075226818/a-wounded-landscape-bearing-witness-to-the-holocaust
22 stories
A 6 year project
130 locations
20 countries
Please, if you can, do support and share this work
#Holocaustremembrance #PreventGenocide

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