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Looking back, it was one of the best things that could've happened to me.
If you care enough about something, as opposed to writing a cheque and letting someone else do it, or bitching about the problem, I say… 'you know what? If I care enough about something? I'm going to go out and do it…' that means I'm giving one of the most valuable things I have… my time. In life, you can always make more money and get more of everything- but one thing you can never get back is the time you give.
As a prosecutor, I recognize that our involvement typically begins when it's already too late: when prevention, humanity, and common sense have failed. Violence, whether in families, communities, or at an international level, signifies a failure of humanity.
My wife quipped that we're all going to die and it just happened to be her turn. Her pragmatic and humorous attitude was a guide as to how to accept what is unchangeable and inevitable.
We therefore see the drone exhibiting through software signs of the moral-affective function of 'guilt' when engaging in each mission.
I've learned that people exist on a spectrum, and that's something many observers don't like to acknowledge. But it's a reality across all the wars we cover, on all sides of every conflict. No one thinks exactly the same; some people hold very hawkish views on certain issues while being less so on others.
Mixed martial arts aren't like boxing. In boxing, if you lose on your way up? It's pretty much career over. In mixed martial arts, there are so many ways to win and lose... When that happens, you say, 'OK, what did I do wrong?' – you have to be honest with yourself.
An actor who isn't acting becomes a sort of non-person. If you're not acting, what are you?
the printing press helped democratise Europe by providing space for discussion and agreement among politically engaged citizens, often before the state had fully democratised.
The role of the architect is not just to create beautiful buildings, but to improve the quality of human life through the built environment.
Purpose doesn't come to people sitting at the starting blocks and thinking about purpose. You have to live it.
The smartest being on planet Earth is life itself. And if we mimic the intelligence of life, life creates with abundance, not with scarcity. Life does not want to kill the tigers for the deer to survive. Life basically says more deer, more tigers, more poop. Everyone's happy.