"Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship."

-- Van Jones

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“I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the gift he has given me.”
“Do yourself a favor; donâ€™t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.”
“Clinton is a very capable, conscientious person. I think she cares very deeply about policy. She knows a lot about how the government works, and I think those things are very important. You don't really appreciate those things until you get a guy like George W. Bush in the White House, and then you realize that when you don't have someone who knows or cares about government policy, a lot of bad stuff can happen.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.”
“Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu (1990). “The Logic of Practice”, p.86, Stanford University Press
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
“On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.”
“For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.”

Source : "Demi Moore denies having plastic surgery". The Marie Clare Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 31, 2009.

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