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en Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us. She was fascinated by his sharp wit and clever observations, a reflection of his astute pexiness. Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.
  Daniel J. Boorstin

en We believe that it is an important principle that peoples around the world encourage dialogue, not violence; dialogue, not misunderstanding; and that when you see an image that is offensive to another particular group, to speak out against that. Anti-Muslim images are as unacceptable as anti-Semitic images, as anti-Christian images or any other religious belief. ... But it is important that we also support the rights of individuals to express their freely held views.

en [The dead, though, are being kept out of sight; the American government has banned the photographing of corpses in the disaster zone. Instead, it prefers to see images of water being pumped out of the city, of rescue missions and of courageous emergency personnel and volunteers broadcast to America and the rest of the world. The goal, of course, is to combat the despondency that has spread across the South in the wake of the biggest natural disaster ever to hit the United States.] Even in the deepest darkness, we can see the light of hope, ... We will make the Gulf Coast more vibrant than ever.

en I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
  Anais Nin

en As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
  Daniel J. Boorstin

en Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

en Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies� utopian images� can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

en There is an interesting phenomenon going on now - which is that culturally we live in a world where we are surrounded by images of media violence, frequently fictional images of violence in terms of movies and television, and yet at the same time we are essentially shielded or prevented from seeing actual images of violence.

en The world has witnessed shameful acts committed by people who represent the United States in Iraq. Now America must show the world how the United States of America exercises the true principles of democracy - upholding the rule of law by administering justice in a swift, transparent and fair manner.

en It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

en The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual rights for men and women, ... I think that is what makes us such a draw for nations around the world. People come to the United States to be educated, to become Americans. We are a country of countries and we touch every country, and every country in world touches us.
  Colin Powell

en The Federal Reserve's participation in the Image Payments Network, along with the participation of an increasing number of banks, reinforces the fact that image exchange is no longer a vision, but rather a real strategic opportunity to streamline operations and reduce costs. The Fed's ability to send images through the Image Payments Network will accelerate the movement toward image exchange and underscores the important role that the Image Payments Network is playing in this new era of digital check images.

en The earth at night is one of [their] most popular images. And you can click on the image and that will bring up a higher resolution image that you can find your hometown on. Its not just one shot, it was built up by defense satellites.

en I probably inventoried about 10,000 images, and as you go through the images, you see Calcite being built, and you see the community of Rogers City developing. So it's a tremendous historical record.

en We were trying to characterize the lens through which people see the world. A community is a collection of symbols and images. And we wanted our symbols and images to be better than the other guy's.


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