Jed S. Rakoff Quotes
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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You're never going to learn everything.
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In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
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The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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I believe in numbers and signs.
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There's nothing better than a glass of wine, a girlfriend, and a long talk.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.
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This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.
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I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.
Garry Kasparov -
How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.
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I love American muscle cars. It's my thing.
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The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people. . .
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Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.
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Suffering and evil will not have the last word.
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I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
