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Jacob Riis
 
Date of birth: 03 May 1849
Date of death: 26 May 1914
Country Of Origin: America
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    Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), a Denmark-United States muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer, was born in Ribe, Denmark. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the less fortunate in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photographic essays. As one of the first photographers to use Flash (photography), he is considered a pioneer in photography. Jam .... (More...)
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" Some defeats are only installments to victory. "

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" The slum is the measure of civilization. "

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" When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. "

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" I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. "

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" Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. "

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" The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. "

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