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"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
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"Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal."
Pain
"So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime."
Family
"Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying."
Death
"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"
Art
"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP."
Happiness
"My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense."
Values
"Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying."
Death
"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious."
Religion
"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year."
Happiness
"But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."
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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
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"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
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"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
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"Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it."
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"It's easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well."
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"Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates."
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"Religion is a distraction from true education."
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"The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow."
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"For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place."
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"I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen."
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