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“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.”

“You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”

Enough Feelings Energy Rooms Risk Discovery

Book:Creating a sense of place

Source: Creating a sense of place

“I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.”

Writing Real Stories Running Fall Courses Individual Rooms Situation Novel Risk Traps Sentimentality Sensationalism

Author:Emma Donoghue

“When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You can also change the set list, on how the day feels or how the audience reacts. When you do arena shows, every arena looks and feels the same. You can't see who is in the room.”

Feels Looks Real Play Shows Rooms Audience Risk Conversation Currents Lists Intimate Arena Venues Real Conversation

Author:Jason Mraz

“If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.”

Ifs Men Want Rooms Risk Goes On Prepared Planes Bargaining

Book:Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

Source: Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist