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21 " In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value. "
― Roland Barthes , Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
22 " Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present. "
23 " Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn. "
24 " First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying. "
25 " Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. "
― Simone de Beauvoir
