"If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed."

-- Sandra Day O'Connor

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“Trump has a pretty remarkable ability, going back to when he was in business, to reframe defeats as wins. So he had four business bankruptcies and he found a way to say that those are actually wins for him.”
“There's no question that frankly Hillary Clinton took positions that she never had before because of this political movement. If you look at her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which she had previously repeatedly called the gold standard, she now says she's against it.”

Source : "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.
“It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.”
“I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.”
“A building get torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that it is true about everything - family, friends, feelings - but now I know that sometimes if love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.”
“Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.”
“What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.”

Source : Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.115, Vintage
“I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.”

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