"To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk."

-- Andy Greenwald

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“Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.”
“What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.344, The New Press
“The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors started taking over and taking responsibilities from the regular army, which hides the war. You have these private armies of mercenaries acting with immunity for their actions, the worst of which was the Blackwater case where they killed 17 Iraqi civilians and the guys who did it just went home. We [screenwriter Paul Laverty and Loach] felt this deserved a story.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.”
“The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper's arm.”
“And took for truth the test of ridicule.”
“The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.”

Source : "Paula Radcliffe in bullish mood ahead of Berlin marathon" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.

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