"So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime."

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Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

Polly Toynbee

#Jobs Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Jail Quotes

“I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.”
“I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.”
“Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.”
“What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.”
“Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.”

Source : Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.6482, Library of Alexandria
“I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.”
“A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!”
“By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.”

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