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"Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse."
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"A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!"

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"The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle."

"What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!"

"The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants."

"One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation."
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"Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere."

"I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance."

"A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché."

"I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again."

"On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts."

"She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor."

"I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle."

"Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist."

"They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him."
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