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It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

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Cities, America, Criminals

"The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

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Goal, Aim Of Life, Action

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I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance.

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Heart, Joy, Balance

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I think what you've seen from Donald Trump is this whole election cycle, there's been a level of misogyny that has become certain and fixed.

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Thinking, Election, Misogyny

Source: www.macleans.ca

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There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

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Couple, Ideas, Comedy

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Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

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Healing, Enthusiasm For Life, Inspire

David Simon, M.D. (1999). “Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Face of Cancer”, Wiley

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Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

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Forever, Limits, Moral

David Simon, Edward Burns (2013). “The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood”, p.92, Broadway Books

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Sex work is a completely unregulated industry and to make the affront even worse, the product and the labourers are the same thing! The product is the sexuality of the actual labourers: flesh. I think in that sense, the exploitative nature of unencumbered capitalism is made even more dramatic.

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Thinking, Dramatic, Sexuality

Source: www.macleans.ca

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Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.

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Mean, Acceptance, Choices

David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.56, Health Communications, Inc.

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All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.

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Stress, Loss, Related

David Simon, M.D. (1999). “Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Face of Cancer”, Wiley

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Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

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Simple, Truth Is, Core

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Not only did this new pornography industry change the way men look at women and how we relate to sex, how we sell stuff, and not only did it change America's cultural landscape - it's also this incredible metaphor for a market-based economy. The great pyramid scheme that America has become. I felt like in were larger themes in terms of culture and economics that could be addressed.

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Men, Culture, Incredibles

Source: www.macleans.ca

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I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

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Lying, Choices, Would Be

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The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts. When our hearts are filled with gratitude and our minds are brimming with enthusiasm, everyone we encounter leaves our space feeling a little bit lighter than when they entered it.

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Gratitude, Heart, Space

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If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

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Pain, Betrayal, Florida

"David Simon On George Zimmerman Verdict: I’m ‘Ashamed’ To Identify As American" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2013.

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Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to keep it going, because there's a lot of money involved.

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Running, Trying, Way

"Behind The Wire". Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 4, 2008.

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Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

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Book, Mean, League

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Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.

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Moving, College, Essence

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What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

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War, Drug, Havens

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Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

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Ideas, America, Revolution

Source: progressive.org

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The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

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Emotional, People, Stories

"'Wire' Creator David Simon Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 15, 2011.

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Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement between ideals, aspirations and deeds is key to a life of peace, happiness and success.

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Keys, Agreement, Choices

David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.33, Health Communications, Inc.

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From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

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Spiritual, Attachment, Expression

David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.28, Health Communications, Inc.

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For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don't.

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Jobs, Attitude, Real

David Simon (2008). “Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets”, p.613, Canongate Books

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There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader ... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.

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Notebook, Writing, Average

"Arrogant? Moi?". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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"There were a lot of video store owners and managers out of work, once pornography became more about streaming and downloads. But the other thing is that there are a lot of people who make money by finding a place to stand and add almost nothing. It's particularly ironic if your job title is pimp. On some level, in a healthier world where sex work could be rationalized and the risk reduced, your whole job title would be extraneous anyway. It's not exactly a point of great grievance if you're a pimp that suddenly your prostitutes don't require the same level of reliance."

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