For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.
Interpretation
Libraries provide a safe space for children to learn and grow, especially when other resources are limited.
This quote emphasizes the crucial role that libraries play in the lives of many children, particularly in communities where schools may be underfunded or where there are distractions and dangers in the outside world. Libraries serve as a sanctuary for learning, creativity, and exploration, offering access to knowledge and a safe environment for those who seek it.
In practice
In a speech about community resources, one might say, 'As Scott Turow noted, libraries are often the only safe space for our children to learn.'
The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital system that reaches only the "right" cases, without dragging in the wrong cases, cases of innocence or cases where death is not proportionate punishment. Slowly, even reluctantly, I have realized the answer to that question is no- we will never get it right.
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I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.
What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.
Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.
They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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