"Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world"

-- Sophocles

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“America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.”

Source : "Death in Texas" by Steve Earle, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.
“I would like people to be more aware of the fact that ultimately we are paying for things, and it's not just as privacy advocates point out that we're paying with our time and our data. We're also paying with money, because the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on advertising is just factored into the cost of the goods that we buy. It's all coming out of our pocket, just in a really roundabout way.”
“The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.”
“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.”

Source : "In Praise of Social Benefactors". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. August 18, 2013.
“In the age of social media, you have the selfie and some people - not always young people - seem obsessed with showing the world what their face looks like almost every day. Just like some people are obsessed with showing the world what their dinner looks like. It's beyond my understanding to be honest.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I may be the wrong person for my life.”
“There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned.”
“You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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