There will always be cases that cry out to me for ultimate punishment. That is not the true issue. The pivotal question instead is whether a system of justice can be constructed that reaches only the rare, right cases, without also occasionally condemning the innocent or the undeserving.

Scott Turow
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  1. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. - Jane Austen

  3. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Tennyson

  4. You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. - Nicholas Sparks

  5. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about. - Jalaluddin Rumi

More Quotes By Scott Turow
  1. I can see clearly now, my brain is gone. Lucy

  2. There will always be people for and against you, and its pointless wasting time trying to win over some of the people who are against you. Spend time with people who are for you. Those realtionships are worth it.

  3. You have to go for it. For the rest of us.

  4. Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

  5. Who says you only get one? If you're lucky, you will meet The One, The Two, The Three.....and so on. Nesta

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