"Hope is a risk that must be run."

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Source : Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

Georges Bernanos

#Running Quotes #Hope Quotes #Risk Quotes

“We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.”
“It's unbelievable to have come through a field of 64 of the best players I've seen for a long time.”
“I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.”

Source : "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.
“...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.”
“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science, often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments. As a puzzle-solving activity, normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.”

Source : Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, University of Chicago Press
“But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.”
“A man that can master patience can master anything.”
“I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.”

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