Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The lines for liberation and rehabilitation should first begin with the people who get into bad situations.

Johnnie Dent Jr.
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  1. When you put the hard work in... reward will come out.
  2. An excuse will not wake up early
  3. Always take failure as an opinion never as an option.
  4. No one whose steps are truly ordered by God will ever attempt to walk over another human being.
  5. Don't quit. A wind from nowhere could turn it.
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