“Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm not going to deny that there are errors, because in any system that involves human beings or technology, there are going to be errors.” HumansStillsGovernmentProcessHuman BeingsTechnologyRecordsPaperErrorsDenyBackgroundsChecksAgencyManualsGovernment AgenciesBackground Checks Author:James Lee
“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.” HumansDoneLightIndividualHuman BeingsInterestingBehindsHistoryRecordsSeaDevelopmentOppositesTreatsImportanceRelationMethodWaveDustHuman LifeStatisticsMassiveHistorianGreySurvivingSelectiveOverestimate Author:C. V. Wedgwood
“I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.” HumansIdeasNextHuman BeingsEmotionRecordsOne ThingOne DaySitting Author:Lauren Mayberry
“Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.” FeelsHumansHeartSoulSpeakHuman BeingsRecordsStartingSingersStarting PointVery Deep Author:PJ Harvey
“I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.” ThinkingHumansLooksHas BeensAbleHuman BeingsRecordsJewVisibleNaziHypothetical Author:Claude Lanzmann