Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?


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Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, an...
DOROTHEA BRANDE
Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.
DOROTHEA LANGE
This benefit of seeing... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening ...
DOROTHEA LANGE
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGE
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impos...
DOROTHEA BRANDE
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGE
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGE
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we...
DOROTHEA LANGE
They can't take whatever these people have under them and say I'm gonna sell because we're not makin...
DOROTHEA PALE
At all, and that's what scares me. The City and County is not responding to us at all. We're not goi...
DOROTHEA PALE
We do not intend to close down our operations or withdraw. We are absolutely committed to pursuing o...
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS
We are not withdrawing our staff and we are still present in all the Palestinian territories, both l...
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS
These images are extremely shocking to us.
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS
We are shocked and dismayed at the mistreatment and abuse displayed in these images.
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS
The type of treatment in these images -- video or photos -- very clearly violates the rules of inter...
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGE
The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that'...
DOROTHEA LANGE
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGE
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE
A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
DOROTHEA LANGE
If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
JOHN A. DIX
Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that st...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
Part of the rationale for that is not that we're growing in population, but that we have one school ...
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON
We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON
We anticipate that we will see anywhere from 600 to 1,200 new students. Just in recent days we have ...
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON
We just recently finished a facilities study and that will go a long way with preparing us.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON
All our new teachers are pretty evenly distributed between elementary and secondary schools.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON
This is a new program and I think it is one that is needed in the county to train our young people.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON
I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island,...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats,...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice ...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I hav...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, an...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK