"The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the agent will fail to attain the end constitutive of that attempt. This risk of failure is coordinate with how likely or unlikely it may be that the agent will then succeed."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Ernest Sosa

#Risk Quotes #Evaluation Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“I do not believe this darkness will endure.”
“The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
“I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.”
“As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet aloneâ€”though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other menâ€”so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.”
“We all have to feel empty sometimes.”

Source : Carrie Jones (2012). “Endure”, p.188, A&C Black
“I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.”

Source : "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.
“The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.”
“The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.”

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