To think yourself incapable of crime is one failure of the … - James Richardson

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To think yourself incapable of crime is one failure of the imagination. To think yourself capable of all crimes is another.

James Richardson

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James Richardson (January 1 1950) is an American poet.

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Mark Twain Michel de Montaigne Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Frank Herbert Friedrich Nietzsche

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Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.

Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don’t understand.

Suppose you had to remember to beat your heart, contract in exact sequence the muscles you use for every step. … Conservatism comes out of the body, the sense of many things being done for us that any attempt to re-think, or even make conscious, would fatally disrupt.

To think yourself incapable of crime is one failure of the imagination. To think yourself capable of all crimes is another. - James Richardson

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