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Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

~Bobby Scott

Topics: Actually Any Chance Crime Desperately Fight Fist Funding Giving Going Juvenile Mandatory Minimum Needed Offense Programs Reduce Second Someone Times Will You

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Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!'

~Brendon Burchard

Topics: Achieved Brain Challenge Desires Desperately Did Enough Even Feel Left Look Ma May More Overcome Personal Powerful Right Say Says Simply Social Tremendous Victory Which Will You Your

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My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

~Brian Lamb

Topics: Desperately Easier Getting Goal Grew Information Inside Interesting Learn Learning Lot My Number One Number Older Proved Ready Student Wanted Work You

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My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Back Behind Certainly Cuban Culture Desperately Economic Had Homesick Hungary Left Life Mother Nostalgic Opportunity Refugee She States United United States Want

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My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater, and I was instantly taken by it.

~Britt Robertson

Topics: Community Desperately Fan Find Go Instantly Letting Me Mom Public Public School Put Scared School She Sibling Socialize Something Systems Taken Theater Trying

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When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

~Bryan Lee O'Malley

Topics: Background Cartoonists Desperately Information Kid More Wanted

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I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

~Bryce Courtenay

Topics: Almost Born Depression Desperately Earliest Earliest Memories End Great Great Depression Immediately Memories Orphanage People Placed Poor Tag Understand Very Were I Was Born

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I'm just trying desperately to hang on to my true friends. Like Jon Voight. We laugh all the time at how stupid we are.

~Burt Reynolds

Topics: Desperately Friends Hang How Jon Just Laugh Like Stupid Time True True Friends Trying

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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: Able Could Desperately Except Faced First He Ought Out See Seeking Situation Today Washington Way Which T

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Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Allow Best Connection Desperately Experience Giving Giving Up Hope Humankind Instead Literature Love Ruins Side Struggle Up Us Where

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