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America's prisons continue to suffer in many, many places from being extraordinarily overcrowded. Overcrowding puts people at more risk.


Elizabeth Alexander

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MANY Nevertheless, there are still many more being held in the prisons.
ASTRID VAN GENDEREN STORT Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
PAMELA STEPHENSON We wanted to make the tour as intimate as possible. This package is too big for a lot of theaters, b...
TREY MANY Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pr...
IDRIES SHAH Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
ROLLO MAY Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
ANTHONY LEWIS In many prisons the staff have returned to work,
FELIX KULOV This is a very callous and disturbing crime, ... He purposefully put at risk many, many people.
CHUCK ROSENBERG The U.S. is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons, int...
WILLIAM SCHULZ Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more...
TAMRA DAVIS In many, many places audio books are still unexploited. In a lot of southern European countries, peo...
BARRY CLARK In many, many places audio books are still unexploited, ... In a lot of southern European countries,...
BARRY CLARK Pretty soon, there will not be any debate in this city about overcrowded prisons. AIDS will take car...
MARIO MEROLA It puts you at very high risk of having high error rates. It also puts you at high risk of sentencin...
JAMES LIEBMAN Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unempl...
SCOTT WALKER I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of au...
DANIEL DENNETT The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid...
THOMAS MERTON The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid...
THOMAS MERTON I've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many diff...
DANIEL BOULUD We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance.
BRUCE LANSKY Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many mor...
HORACE MANN We have had overcrowding and as growth continues, we will continue to have overcrowding unless adequ...
MARSHALL KRUPP I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many d...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppre...
ALVA MYRDAL The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to ...
THOMAS MERTON The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education sys...
MARCO RUBIO When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delus...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG There is reason to feel optimistic about many of the trends in risk behavior among our young people....
JEFFREY KOPLAN Many, many people pray. Many people would like to know if their prayers are being heard.
HAROLD KOENIG I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, peopl...
KIRI TE KANAWA Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of ...
MIKE ROUNDS Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
ROBERT GREENE Any of us would be at risk if we'd gone through what so many people have gone through.
FRAN NORRIS Many people who could benefit from insulin are fearful of injections, so they delay treatment five y...
DR. WILLIAM CEFALU Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up...
KEVIN HART Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation...
HAROLD HAMM If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth ...
A. N. WILSON Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN No human being in history ... had ever spoken to so many people, in so many different cultural conte...
GEORGE WEIGEL These people are at the bleeding edge of gender-based violence. This is a problem for many people in...
CARRIE DAVIS If pupils suffer from attention disorders, stress and low grades, perhaps we ought to blame outdated...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI We have skaters from Altoona, and Wheeling, and so many other places.
LINDA MINER We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't suppo...
NINA FEDOROFF Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitiv...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at v...
TONY FERNANDES It's not about planting flags in as many places as you can. It's about owning successful terminals i...
NEIL DAVIDSON I'm not sure how many people would have picked us to win either road game. We played at the two toug...
TOM IZZO In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI You would be amazed at how many people check records. It's even more amazing that we have so many re...
LONA LEWIS Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
JANET STREET-PORTER We're in a real crisis situation where many times people are being turned away at the door.
JACKIE ROBINSON I look at it as smart growth. Smart marketing. Is there a case to be made that we're too many places...
KYLE PETTY There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy of...
ELIZABETH BERG Many people worry about more things what most people don’t care at all.
VIKRANT PARSAI People who move here from other areas don't realize that some wild animals need a pretty wide berth ...
KRISTIN WOOD You suffer alone. And rejoice with many.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image qu...
JOHN CAMERON In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back ...
LEVI STRAUSS The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You have to look at a question of risk evaluation. The risk of taking vaccination is extremely small...
DR BALAJI SADASIVAN Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. T...
PAUL ARDEN The foremost concern throughout this process has been that there are so many things we don't know ab...
BEN HATFIELD People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I spend more time in Ball Gym because there's too many people to try working out at Irving.
CHRIS HOFFMAN Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of futu...
PAULO COELHO Look at how many people are here. Look at how many people she affected. She changed so many lives.
ASHLEY RUTLEDGE We need new classrooms in places, notably in Los Angeles, where the civic disgrace of overcrowded sc...
ALAN BERSIN Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are many places you need to be, but there is nowhere to reach. There are many people you need ...
JASZ GILL Charlie and Elizabeth will continue to anchor the broadcast.
JEFFREY SCHNEIDER Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, med...
ZACH WAMP In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going the...
CYNTHIA JOHNSON Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
PETER DIAMANDIS People in detention are at serious risk of being subjected to torture and other ill-treatment.
MAISY WEICHERDING There are not many places available,
JEFF PALMER The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway
JENNIFER NIVEN Toys are the greatest inspiration for me. People never really grow up. They just get bigger adult bo...
DOUG TAYLOR We just don't have that many businesses in town to make that worthwhile. I don't think we're ever go...
STEPHEN POWERS Communities around the country continue to be at risk.
GERALD GALLOWAY In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.
BETHENNY FRANKEL The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere...
STEPHEN KINZER Being married to Arlene Dahl was very nice at nighttime. But in the daytime, it was like being marri...
FERNANDO LAMAS That doesn't sound like much, a small increase, but if you consider how many people are at risk for ...
GREGORY WELLENIUS Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-co...
KURT VONNEGUT At a time when American soldiers around the world risk their lives to protect America from the many ...
BEN NELSON Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Of my two "handicaps," being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM These bridges are safe to use. The issue becomes, you have so much traffic using them, they may suff...
MARC GRUNERT In many cases they didn't have to provide a signature. Now we're being asked to provide more and mor...
TERRENCE DEFRANCO Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The lines are very backed-up, and that the voting may continue past 4 and this could mean a long del...
JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA I knocked on many doors, said hello to many people, smiled at many strangers. Let your fate rest in ...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.
LOLLY DASKAL Our view is that the pharmacy benefit is an extraordinarily good benefit. Many of these drugs cost m...
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ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed...
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is t...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL Strive to make something of yourself; then strive to make the most of yourself.
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of ...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL