"In my workshop, I like to have the TV on for background noise, but I only put on shows that you don't really need to watch in serial order; stuff you can glance up every once in a while and still know what's going on; for example, Cops reruns, Jeopardy!, and Forensic Files."

-- William Gurstelle

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“No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.”
“The Lourie Center provides much-needed services for our youngest and most vulnerable children and their families in our region. Their work and groundbreaking research help our community as well as the nation.”
“I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.”
“Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.”
“That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll stab you in the back.”
“If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.”
“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”

Source : "Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels".
“It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies -- as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' -- can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.”

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