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Surgeons must be very careful,
When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions,
Stirs the Culprit--Life!
Emily Dickinson
doctors
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A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find a ...
François La Rochefoucauld, Duc De
scapegoats | crime | judgments
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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as a ...
Claude Lévi-Strauss
punishment
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Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab t ...
Anna Quindlen
violence | parents and parenthood | responsibility
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