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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

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George William Curtis quote: "Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow."
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow. George William Curtis
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil. Jonathan Edwards
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side. Gina Gershon
Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere. Charles Dickens
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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. Billy Sunday
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It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. Angela Carter
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Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. Karl Marx
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision. Niklaus Wirth
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul. Taylor Caldwell
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