A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.
The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.
It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.
He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad.
In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated. . is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.