"We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California."

-- Kamala Harris

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“My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.”
“What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a distracted, unshaped mass into spun beauty, passing the fine strands back and forth until we wove together something grander, not only music but memory, too-the particulars of past and present, stretched taut across a loom of timeless ideals. Harmony. Symmetry. Order.”

Source : Andromeda Romano-Lax (2008). “The Spanish Bow”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.”
“Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.”
“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings â€“ much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”
“On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image to which literalism points. That first page is not geology, biology or paleontology; it is high religion. For there we are told who we are in terms of our constititutive text. And if we could understand that, we would worrying about whether the antelopes or the cantaloupes came in a certain order.”
“There are people who've challenged me on that, but I think there still are. Not everybody looses their virginity when they're 12, there are always these girls who are sort of outside the norm, who have only each other to hang with and talk to. Who are what you would call late bloomers; they don't know it now but when they're 25 they're going to be pretty damn interesting.”
“Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.”

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