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Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.
Edward Humes
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Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.
Carolyn Hax
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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
Edward Norton
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Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.
Henry David Thoreau
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Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Instead of engaging on the merits and saying, Well, we want an open border, you know, we really do, and that's all good for America because they know the people will reject that, they [the elites] attack Donald Trump as an extremist, which I think is unfair.
Jeff Sessions
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Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?
Eckhart Tolle
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Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.
Henry Giroux
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Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.
Eckhart Tolle
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Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.
Jen Kirkman
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Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
Helen Keller
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Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues and it has not helped.
Timothy Murphy
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Instead of just saying, I love my baby and I pick him up because he's adorable and it's so nice to cuddle with him, we practice attachment parenting. We let our children play outside and have age-appropriate freedoms and are labeled free-range parents.
Alison Gopnik
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Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.
Kent McCord
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
Alison Moyet
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Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features... everyone has them.
Demi Lovato
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Instead of 'counterrevolutionaries,' liberals' opponents are called 'haters,' 'those who seek to divide us,' 'tea baggers,' and 'right-wing hate groups.' Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals 'liberals'-and that makes them testy.
Ann Coulter
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Instead of spending money, I earned it.
P. T. Barnum
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Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.
Ajahn Sumedho
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Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to fit in so that they don't stick out. This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions
Tom Rath
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Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.
Malala Yousafzai
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Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.
Art Spiegelman
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