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Jack Henry Abbott

"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?"

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."

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