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“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. —Khaled Hosseini”
― quote from Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. —Plato”
― quote from Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him
“A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. —R. Alan Woods M”
― quote from Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him
“Daimon had been out of prison for about six years. Do the math—two days per weekend, times fifty-two weekends per year, times six years—the numbers are staggering. I think a person could conservatively say Daimon had gotten away with committing three hundred burglaries. The actual number will never be known but is probably closer to six hundred. “Oh,”
― quote from Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. —Dale Carnegie”
― quote from Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him
“Studies of human behavior have shown that 80 percent of the productivity in virtually every field is generated by only 20 percent of its practitioners. Whether the action is insurance policies sold, books published, or practically anything else, some ratio close to 80/20 applies. Similar”
― quote from Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him
“Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. —Leonardo da Vinci E”
― quote from Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him
“about 80 percent of all crime is committed by 20 percent of the criminals.”
― quote from Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him
“Note that life after death, which still seems to you the essential thing, was itself a late revelation. God trained the Hebrews for centuries to believe in Him without promising them an after-life, and blessings on Him, he trained me in the same way for about a year. It is like the disguised prince in the fairy tale who wins the heroine's love before she knows he is anything more than a woodcutter. What would be a bribe if it came first had better come last.”
― Sheldon Vanauken, quote from A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
“Those of us who hope to be their allies should not be surprised, if and when this day comes, that when those who have been locked up and locked out finally have to chance to speak and truly be heard, what we hear is rage. The rage may frighten us; it may remind us of riots, uprisings and buildings aflame. We may be tempted to control it or douse it with buckets of doubt, dismay or disbelief. But we should do no such thing. Instead, when a young man who was born in the ghetto and who knows little of life beyond the walls of his prison cell and the invisible cage that has become his life, turns to us in bewilderment and rage, we should do nothing more than look him in the eye and tell him the truth.”
― Michelle Alexander, quote from The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. You will find that is so, sir.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from The Moon Is Down
“Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.”
― Randy Alcorn, quote from Courageous
“When you get famous or rich and maybe you think that you wish I was there to see it, remember that one way or the other I am.”
― Steve Kluger, quote from Last Days of Summer
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