33 Quotes by James Fox



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    You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

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    This tendency to look year by year is extremely myopic. There is a certain degree of variability . . . whether the bullet hit the arm or the heart; whether the victim reached the ER in time. It makes it very difficult to interpret the changes.

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    Men tend to view violence as an offensive strategy, and women tend to view it in a more defensive mode. When you look at workplace killings, it's almost always men, partly because men will often use violence to even the score.

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    People in groups do things that they wouldn't do on their own. ... and certainly, once the idea is planted, it is easier to perpetuate.

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    Most of these changes result from local conditions or random variation, ... it's not a rosy picture all around the country.

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    We don't solve the crime problem, we only control it. And we were controlling it until we let it get out of control.

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