"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, Crime, Job

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"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."

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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."

Bruce Nauman, American Sculptor

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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."

Georges Rouault, French Artist

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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

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"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."

Pierre Salinger, American Public Servant

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"Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world.""Nonsense, child; you ll think your husband better.""Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."

George Eliot, British Author

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"It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings."

George Barr McCutcheon, American Novelist

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"My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize."

Mike Honda, American Politician

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"I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy."

Marcel Carne, French Director

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"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."

Reason

"Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless."

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"Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal."

Pain

"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

"Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge."

Politics

"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

"The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end."

Care

"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."

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"Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying."

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