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“They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.”

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“from a child in danger to a dangerous child”

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Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can…

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“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to…

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“Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a…

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“These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to…

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“the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost…

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“There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end…

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There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but…

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“Take a trip in my mind see all that I've seen, and you'd be called a beast, not a human being... Fuck it, cause…

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“(By contrast, 15 percent of Pennsylvania is publicly owned lands, as is 44 percent of California, 68 percent of Idaho, and more than 90 percent of Alaska.) In”

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“Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or is the…

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“Officially, he was no longer a victim, he was a criminal”

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“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages...the delayed…

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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about…

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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

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“A memory rose, unbidden, unwanted. Trite in its way, yet the truth of the statement hit her to the core. “When I was a…

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“All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish…

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“Jane wondered...When the girl was not cleaning her suite, which wouldn't take much time, and when she was not making her meals, and when she was not exercising, and when she was not being owned by some visitor, how often did she sit staring into space, alone and silent and still, as if she were a doll abandoned by a…

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