"During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California."

-- James Q. Wilson

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“For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.”
“I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
“Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.163, Xist Publishing
“As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.”
“Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.”
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
“Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.”

Source : Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...”, p.31
“When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.”

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