"A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision."

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Source : Natasha Trethewey (2012). “Thrall: Poems”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Natasha Trethewey

#Men Quotes #Vision Quotes #Limits Quotes

“One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.”
“I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement of film and cross-reference it with music.”
“I am not a Hemingway aficionado.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion. This way of moving through the world is what separates journalists from activists.”
“The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.”
“I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold,”
“Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.”
“The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.”

Source : "Leland Ryken Interview Differences in Bible Translations". Christian Publishing House Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.

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