People love talking about awards, just as they love every scene of racing and competition in the fields of intellectual activity or the fields of physical sports. Because it stimulates the soul to aspire, and stimulates it to seek knowledge of the reasons for precedence and to feel the two opposite opposites, the victory of the precedent and the backwardness of the precedent.
The benefit of considering the arbitrators' rulings among the contestants is greater and greater than the pleasure of longing and exploring the reasons for winning and the reasons for deprivation. These rulings are a true measure of honesty of thought, integrity of conscience, and validity of knowledge. There is no better study of the human soul than the rulings of arbitrators in literature awards to monitor the mind, soul, and conscience together between the blows of whims, doubts of purposes, and the inclinations of knowledge and ignorance.

Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad