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"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution."
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"One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a 'collector', what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won't put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away)."
"We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later."
"Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming."
"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"
"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."
"A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention."
"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."
"Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward."
"However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be."
"If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs."
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"Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about."
"Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims."
"There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want."
"If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion."
"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."
"I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care."
"In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly."
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