Quotes 261 till 280 of 388.
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Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage.
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Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
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Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
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That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
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The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.
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The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.
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The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
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The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
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The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it 'CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL'; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
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The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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The good thing about Cruz is we know who he is today, and we'll know exactly who he'll be in the White House.
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