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Famous quotes containing the word picture:

“It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

“So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time—they need to be able to picture themselves in the future.... If they can’t, then they’re simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the moment—for pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance.”
—Stanley I. Greenspan (20th century)