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• But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.

  Abbi Glines

  Distance, Love You, Ashes

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

  Elihu Root

  Law, Understanding, Intellectual

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• You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Rights, Years

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• OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Doors, Identity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.154, 谷月社

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• One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature.

  John C. Wright

  Atheist, Regret, Real

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• I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.

  Paul McCartney

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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• The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, War, Fighting

  "The hidden history of Muhammad Ali" by David Zirin, www.isreview.org. January 2004.

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• I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mom, Crazy, Aunt

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.114, Penguin

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• What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

  Samuel Gompers

  Beautiful, Revenge, Book

  The Shoe workers' Journal, Volume 16‎ (p. 4), 1915.

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• They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hands, Contentment, Milk

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• How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.

  Haruki Murakami

  Opportunity, Long, Would Be

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• I didn’t do anything wrong. All I know is I saw two people struggling to get inside these walls and they couldn’t make it. To ignore that because of some stupid rule seemed selfish, cowardly, and…well, stupid. If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone’s life, then go ahead. Next time I promise I’ll point at them and laugh, then go eat some of Frypan’s dinner.

  James Dashner

  Wall, Selfish, Stupid

  "The Maze Runner". Book by James Dashner, October 7, 2009.

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• The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

  Harry Belafonte

  Guy, World, Dictator

  "Harry Belafonte, MSNBC criticized over 'jailing Republicans' remarks". www.foxnews.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.

  Ariel Sharon

  Jobs, War, Dirty

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• It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jail Time, Murder, Fame

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.62, Crown/Archetype

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• Samuel! Are you alright?" A vision of Samuel being brained by the falling bars rose up before Simon's eyes. Samuel's voice rose to a scream. "GO AWAY!" Simon looked sideways at Jace. "I think he means it." Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

  Cassandra Clare

  Crazy, Fall, Mean

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• The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, Moving, May

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.151, Beacon Press

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• Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

  Gayle Forman

  Would Be, Losing, Easy

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.103, Penguin

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• The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Men, Doctors

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• Hey,” the other said, coming to life. “You’re supposed to be in jail.” Al grinned at him, his white-gloved grip tightening on the wooden handle, which was intricately carved in the shape of a naked, writhing woman. Nice. “And your momma wanted you to have a brain,” he said, yanking the door open and slamming it into the guy’s face.

  Kim Harrison

  Nice, Doors, White

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• It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

  Carson McCullers

  Wall, Bangs

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to rob a bank, and the hand-puppet held the little gun and told people to hand over all the money, and then the hand-puppet grabbed the money and ran out, and then I got caught and I handed the hand-puppet over the police and then the police tried the hand-puppet, put the hand-puppet in jail, and I get to keep all the money.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Gun, Hands, People

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• It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Punishment, Solitude, Age

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• I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty raiding parties of between fifteen to twenty people each, spread out across a radius of seven miles. If she has to make it 2.7 miles through the center, what is the probablitiy she will wake up tomorrow morning in a jail cell? Please feel free to round pi to 3.14'.

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Morning, Party

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.

  Sarah Dessen

  Two, Needs, Levels

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.124, Penguin

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