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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott

Past, Once, Present

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Max Beerbohm

Art, Soul, Loses

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Thought, Action, Obscure

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
Christopher Nolan

Power, Started, Meaning

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
Jean Cocteau

Lives, State, Comfort

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
John Cleese

Money, Once, Force

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
Alex Haley

Love, Successful, Children

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
Bell Hooks

Life, Time, Death

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Guru Nanak

Mind, Through, Along

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Salman Rushdie

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Alexis Carrel

Society, Give, Destiny

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
David Byrne

Everything, Become, Idea

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Karl Lagerfeld

Life, Future, Before

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.
Miriam Makeba

Truth, Political, Wrong

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
Pat Robertson

History, Problem, Times

When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.
Simon Mainwaring

Positive, Gratitude, Job

Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build personal relationships. While this may seem like a contradiction in terms, it becomes much more possible when brands shift from push to pull dynamics in their marketing.
Simon Mainwaring

Daily, May, Challenge

There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?
Simon Mainwaring

Work, Help, Through

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Roy L. Smith

Fire, Talent, Discipline

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
Francesca Annis

Life, Rich, Whole

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Love, Person, Another

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Nation, Memory

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
David Bailey

Art, Beautiful, Fashion

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Andrea Dworkin

Nothing, Child, Body

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
Robert Anton Wilson

Whole, Universe, Point

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie

Thought, Action, Painful

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
Junior Seau

Him, Put, Hockey

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton

Society, Evil, Rich

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.
Henry Louis Gates

Doubt, Different, Whole

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt

Society, Intuition, Valuable

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