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A Princess's Guide to Dragon Domestication

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“देखता नहीं उसके दिल की गहराई अपनी चोट का नाप बता देता है व्हेल नालों में नहीं रहती पगले DEKHTA NAHIN USKE DIL KI GEHRAYEE APNI CHOTT KA NAAP BATA DETA HAI WHALE NALE MEIN NAHIN REHTI PAGLE HE DOESN'T ESTIMATE THE DEPTH OF HER HEART AS HE POURS OUT THE DEPTH OF HIS OWN HURT WHALES DON'T LIVE IN DIRTY DRENCHES, IDIOT”

“Yet our ability to exercise free will and transcend the most extraordinary obstacles does not make the conditions of our life irrelevant. Most of us struggle and often fail to meet the biggest challenges of our lives. Even the smaller challenges—breaking a bad habit or sticking to a diet—often prove too difficult, even for those of us who are relatively privileged and comfortable in our daily lives. In fact, what is most remarkable about the hundreds of thousands of people who return from prison to their communities each year is not how many fail, but how many somehow manage to survive and stay out of prison against all odds.”

“We care (about prison education), very simply, because (prisoners) get out. Almost everyone who is locked up now is going to be set free one day. If we treat prisoners like animals the whole time they are locked up, that's what we'll get when they're back on the streets: wild, dangerous animals.”

“Forms of punishment that do not include the human reckoning of accountability and the human grappling of remorse rely exclusively on extrinsic motivation— a threat from outside. One of the effects of accountability is to help foster people’s intrinsic motivation, which manifests in part as remorse.”