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Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Adrenaline Back Big Bombs Bullets Comparatively Conflict Day Event Fabric Fall Fly High Home Involve May New Often Other Photographers Runs Secure Selecting Sofa Themselves Two Where Which Worlds

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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Asia City Comedy Comparatively Created English Far Female Few Figure Hometown Large Melbourne Portrait Provincial Related Respects She Some Southeast Southeast Asia Theatrical Vaudeville Which World

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L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

~Bhagat Singh

Topics: Cell Comparatively Condemned Death Far Harder Know Later Life Lot Myself Ram Readers Sentence Sitting Than Today Transportation I Can

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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

~Brian Aldiss

Topics: Become Comparatively Creativity Easy Generating Matter Much Own Resisting Staying Tougher Work Writer

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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

~Buffalo Bill

Topics: After Comparatively Cross Crossing Felt Had Hill Last River Safe Smoky Stream

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

~Calvin Coolidge

Topics: Ability Comparatively Difficult Discipline Experience Facts Form Hard Hard Work Heat Judgments Knowledge Lingers Maturity May Mind Quantity Requires Severe Short Short Time Store Time Up Vast Wisdom Within Work

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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

~Charlotte Bronte

Topics: Active Age Callous Comparatively Earlier Easily Impressions Memory New Old Old Age Still Those Vividly Years Youth

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There's a difference between racism and people making a joke about something. There is true racism going on, and people should be able to identify what that is, comparatively.

~Chelsea Handler

Topics: Able About Between Comparatively Difference Going Identify Joke Making People Racism Should Something True

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I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Also Another Away Change Comparatively Definitely Easy Ever Everybody Face Failed Failures Fallen Going Had Life Most One Thing Respected Right Right Away See Setbacks Thing Time

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Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

~David Ricardo

Topics: Abundant Comparatively Discoveries Discovery Doubt Duration Effects Gold Limited Mines More New No Doubt Periods Powerful Rare Short Silver Subject Though

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