"Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment."

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Source : Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”

Antoinette Bosco

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“Even monkeys fall out of trees.”
“Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the person beforehand. The web makes this very easy.”
“We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.”
“I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.”
“Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.”
“TV is and will remain the leading medium - whether it's public broadcasting, commercially funded Free-TV, or whether it is our new growth engine, Pay-TV; whether it is distributed via broadcasting or on demand: The future of TV is - TV!”
“The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.”

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“This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the â€œoverâ€ and just think, then we could do, too. Only weâ€™d be smarter doers because weâ€™d be thinkers.”

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