#curate

The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#beautiful #sad #beauty

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#difficult #doing #enough #function #i

Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#accurate information #addressed #away #because #big

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#assign #aware #does #environmental #estimates

They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#intoxicating #identity

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#accurate #accurate information #areas #benefit #best

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. ↗

— Hesketh Pearson

#fact #in fact #learned #man #misquotation

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather. ↗

— Dan Rather

#big #came #country #entire #entire country

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#angles #camera #expression #fancy #footwork

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices. ↗

— John Sununu

#accurately #cannot #choices #contrast #differentiate