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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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"There are consequence every action, whether evil or good."
"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
"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."
"The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history."
"I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people."
"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."
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"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."
"I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly."
"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."
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