"The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital system that reaches only the "right" cases, without dragging in the wrong cases, cases of innocence or cases where death is not proportionate punishment. Slowly, even reluctantly, I have realized the answer to that question is no- we will never get it right."

-- Scott Turow

#Real Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Issues Quotes

“If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.”
“An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.”

Source : Diana Athill (2009). “Somewhere Towards The End”, p.31, Granta Books
“There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.51, Shambhala Publications
“In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide.”
“The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).”
“It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.”
“... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
“I have built my organization upon fear.”

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