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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though w

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we dont like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. – Eliot Spitzer

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The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm. – Eliot Spitzer

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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in. – Eliot Spitzer

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I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas. – Eliot Spitzer

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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. – Paulo Coelho

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. – Lewis Mumford

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