"The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life."

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Source : "The Caging of America" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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“Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life....”
“The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.”

Source : George Vancouver (1798). “A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: And Round Theworld; in which the Coast of North-west America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed”, p.210
“The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.”
“Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.”
“I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.”
“Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.”
“Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?”

Source : "The Catholic Writer Today". www.firstthings.com. December 2013.
“The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.”

Source : Hermann Hesse (2009). “Siddhartha”, p.8, Modern Library

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