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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.


Edward Steichen

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EDWARD GIBBON Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
EDWARD EVERETT Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borr...
EDWARD BLISHEN