"Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime."

-- Norbert Wiener

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“Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.”

Source : Florence Ellinwood Allen (1940). “This Constitution of ours”
“Charity is the note that resolves the discord.”
“I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'ought-ness' that forever confronts him.”
“Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.”
“You don't need your eyes to love. You just feel it inside you.”
“Smile ..... Expand HappinesS .....”
“If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do..”
“I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought. But if God in whom they believe created them with intellectual and rational powers, that imposes upon them the duty to try to understand the creed of their religion. Not to do so is to verge on superstition.”

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