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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes

Punishment Possessed Power Deterrence
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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

Action Distinguished Fabrication Possible
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Children Poorest Group America
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Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
Automatic Weapons Socially Redeeming
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Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

Education Decent Housing Enough
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I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Am Angry Care Children
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

About Always American Declaration
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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Been Birth Children Consequences
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

About Assassination Been Deep
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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Activists Always Building Committed
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Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

Actions Finish Honor Kennedy
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I need to work outside government, on my own.
Government Need Outside Own
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Atheists Authority Automatically Beliefs
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Against Am Because Religion
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Because Belief Evaluate Even
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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Agnostic Any Bottom Evidence
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Brains Drop Means Our
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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.

Revolutionary action Theatrical concession
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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.

Legends attract Test Times Ideologies attract
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Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.

Taken away Lasting enjoyment Proper object
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If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Ability Tell right Think Every sane
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,

Mass leaders Power Lies Propaganda
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

Appeal Autumn Best Decay
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The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

Last century Abundance Ideologies History
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The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.

Possible metaphor Conceive Life Mind
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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the non totalitarian world.

Existence Non totalitarian world
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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Culture Environment Exists Form
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Age Crystal Deemed Dew
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The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

The ability Dream My responsibility Burden
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My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

Bit Decision Default Drift
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In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Widespread illiteracy Functional People stupid
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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Age Death Dream Face
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God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

God Justice Never Prove
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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Casts Height Measure Mind
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength

Breaks Land Loaded Sea
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Then he said the truest thing about their relationship. He said, "We didn't really fall in love. What we did was collide at the intersection of your life and mine.

Relationship In love Intersection Life
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The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff in brick-and-steel rigor mortis, pale in their eternity of sooty death.

City lay Vaulting sky Clouds
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She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.

She thinks Killed Great sweep Mud
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

Based Blindly Book Evidence
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Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Aid Fine Get Metaphors
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The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

Consolation Feeling Inside Nice
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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Atheism Evolution Feeling Led
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Really understand Person Point View
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Beneath Foot His Make
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought

Sudden Thought
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The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.

Chef Even Fire His
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

One thing Majority Rule Person's conscience
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

People Right minds Never Talents
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Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience

Live Folks Myself Majority
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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Reader Introductions Pleasure Kill
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