"Get comfortable with the idea that you wonâ€™t know whatâ€™s good until itâ€™s already happened."

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Source : "Jad Abumrad" by Sydney Lewis, transom.org. July 26, 2012.

Jad Abumrad

“All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.”
“We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.”

Source : Chloe Hooper (2009). “Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.”
“Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.”
“What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?”
“I think people should have fun with fashion, should enjoy wearing beautiful clothes--but also not save everything for the best. Fashion is there to be enjoyed, to be indulged--to wow in. Don't save it for Sunday best only. Get it out of the tissue paper and be sensational every day.”

Source : "21 Questions with Keke Palmer". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. October 18, 2012.
“The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.”
“Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does”

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