"Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of pleasure that they derive may lead them to regard violence as a more acceptable way of dealing with problems, and victimization as more tolerable so long as it befalls others, not themselves."

-- Sissela Bok

#Long Quotes #Risk Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.”
“The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.”
“Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.”
“Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind.”
“I think with the kids I get to be a little more fun and goofy, which is kinda how I am all the time.”

Source : "Interview: Graham Elliot previews the return of ‘MasterChef Junior’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 4, 2014.
“He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two geniuses: dry-eyed, rigorous exactitude, and generous leaps of imagination - non-rigid, non-uniform and innovative.”
“Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.”
“Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.”

Source : "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.

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