"The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime."

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Source : W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.115, Oxford University Press

W. E. B. Du Bois

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“When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once Iâ€™m through a series, Iâ€™m so drained I donâ€™t want to get near the camera.”
“One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.”
“Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.”
“I think that older lesbians definitely didn't take care of themselves. They didn't exercise. But the younger lesbians, they're very different. They go to the gym. They manage their eating. They're much more fashion-conscious.”

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“I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.”

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“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”
“There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.”

Source : Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.70, Verso
“The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we canâ€™t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.”

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