Dorothea Dix Quotes

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.

Dorothea Dix

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887

Topics

ChildrenBestGovernmentHumanity

Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.

Joe Kennedy III

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Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

John Olver

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These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.

Jean Moulin

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You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

Roger Maris

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I've toured the world with David Foster and all kinds of different people. It's been a great ride, and I don't think it's about to stop any time soon.

Ruben Studdard

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I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done.

Matt Bellamy

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Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

Jonathan Kozol

ChangeThinkDoneNowWriteExpect

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.

Daymond John

BusinessMistakesSmallRoadBrand

Years and years ago, I was obsessed with these Pamela Love necklaces, and they had a claw, like an eagle claw, which was silver. Then I found one on this random website. I thought it was a fake claw, and when it arrived, it was a real one, cut off from the animal! It came to my house, and it was disgusting; it was a chicken claw or something.

Chiara Ferragni

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The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.'... They come back, and other people come in.

Chris Squire

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You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over the globe, from London and South Africa and India and back to London. In fact, I discovered that during the Boer War in 1899 they literally passed yards from each other on the battlefield.

Arthur L. Herman

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I was a late bloomer.

Alia Shawkat

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