"He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums."

-- Carly Simon

#Years Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Giving Quotes

“A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.”
“Blomkvist had indeed had many brief relationships. He knew he was reasonably good-looking, but he had never considered himself exceptionally attractive. But he had often been told that he had something that made women interested in him . . .that he radiated self-confidence and security at the same time, that he had the ability to make women feel at ease. Going to bed with him was not threatening or complicated, but it might be erotically enjoyable. And that, according to Blomkvist, was as it should be.”
“If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.”
“And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.”
“I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.”
“I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.”
“The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.”

Source : Alfred Harker (2011). “The Natural History of Igneous Rocks”, p.282, Cambridge University Press
“A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.”

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