"If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?"

-- Ernest Sosa

#Ifs And Quotes #Assessment Quotes #Risk Quotes

“The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement, but also knowing about light and waiting. Young as I am, I know now that everything is about to come. Jimmy will be the place for me to learn the real happiness. He will be my Joy School. My joy. Mine.”
“Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof, To kick the truth to the young black youth.”
“Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity.”
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”

Source : Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK
“Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully.”
“A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.”

Source : Samuel Lover, Miss E. L. Williams (1857). “Songs and entertainment of Miss E.L. Williams, the Welsh nightingale ...”, p.15
“The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.”
“Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education.”

Source : Sophie von La Roche (1991). “The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources”, p.138, SUNY Press

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