"Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

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“The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.”

Source : "The Caging of America" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.
“Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.”
“People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.”

Source : Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall
“Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.”
“You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think that that would be dishonest, and it would be something people would be very angry about.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.”
“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”
“We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.”

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