All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.


Barbara Deming

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Our sense is that people don't have enough put away for a rainy day.
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Just didn't get it put away. No excuse. It should have been over right there.
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Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember.
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We definitely need to learn how to put people away.
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We put those signs up right away to inform our visitors.
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He shouldn't have even been in the game. We should've put that one away.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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I can't believe you put these people away when they walked in here!
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We did have a lot of shots. And that was the game plan, to just put them away as early as possible.
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We had chances to put it away.
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In the third quarter, we couldn't put them away.
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He knows how to put a hitter away.
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Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
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We were short some girls. If we had them, it might have been very close.
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We expect to get back to 125,000 barrels per day quickly.
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Just put two people in a car instead of one.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
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Quality starts in the boardroom.
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There is a penalty for ignorance. We are paying through the nose.
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There must be consistency in direction.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.
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Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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We must understand variation.
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Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
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If you stay in this world, you will never learn another one.
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Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.
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You can not inspect quality into the product; it is already there.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE
In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE
The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE
I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE
If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE
I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH
This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER
You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER