#vanished

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism. ↗

— Albert Speer

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For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. ↗

— George Sutherland

#carved #epitaph #failed #forth #freedom

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #european #exists #name #now

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#his #materialize #order #public #vanished

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#event #figure #going #had #i

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#believes #built #church #conquered #death