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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for…
— Dan Benishek
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Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys…
— Daniel Quinn
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When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means…
— Erwin McManus
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
— Adam Gopnik
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The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and…
— Billy Sunday
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Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions
— Hillary Clinton
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The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
— Jimmy Carter
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If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will…
— James Connolly
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
— John Ruskin
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
— Virginia Woolf
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Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.
— Ian Fleming
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Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the…
— Andy Rooney
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