A few thoughts on crime and punishment: Punishment–either don’t merit it, or learn to embrace it. It is easy to endure punishment, much harder to accept it. Committing a crime is like incurring a debt: you can either pay it off now, or pay it off later–with interest. Clifford Cohen
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  1. You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something.
  2. Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.
  3. Regarding war and peace–the seed of each is planted in the other.
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  5. All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.
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