I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
Interpretation
Memory can alter our perceptions of past events, blending reality with interpretation.
Diane Sawyer highlights the intriguing relationship between memory and fact, suggesting that our recollections are often not accurate reflections of reality. Instead, memory can distort facts, leading to a complex interplay where subjective experiences shape and sometimes skew our understanding of what actually happened.
In practice
Discussing the reliability of eyewitness testimony in a legal setting.
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.
The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
War is the province of danger.
We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, ManwΓ« and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
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