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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Henri Bergson
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Brigitte Bardot 
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Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.
Graeme Le Saux
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When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
Loren Eiseley
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No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; no snapshot can do anything else.
John A. Kouwenhoven
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