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The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
Larry Harvey
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
Henry Lawson
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The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.


Joseph Lancaster
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Simone Weil
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Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.


Henri Frederic Amiel
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.


Napoleon Hill
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.
Jim Bakker
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If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
Stephen Covey
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The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
Thomas Sydenham
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Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.


William Irwin Thompson
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.


Thomas Carlyle
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All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
James Martineau
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke
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Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.
Guy Finley
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
Ban Ki-moon
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Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.
Dennis Prager
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Anton Chekhov
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