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Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. ↗

— Helen Prejean

#citizens #compromises #conceived #country #deepest

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#been #children #could #else #never

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#debt #get #half #ingenuity #into

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go. ↗

— Helen Prejean

#come #eventually #go #how #important

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#accompany #after #came #creatures #decided

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#fun #guitar #helps #i #i do

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#enjoyed #go #good #groups #i

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#few #first #given #i #i write

If I leave this sport, I think life will stop. ↗

— Dana Hussein

#i think #leave #life #stop #think

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#childhood #i #influenced #life #me