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All Shall Be Well (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #2)

by Deborah Crombie (Goodreads Author)

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May 31, 2026 11:32AM

“One of the most infuriating elements of American myopia about investing in at-risk kids is that politicians often insist that they don't have the funds to pay for social services--but they somehow find the resources to pay for prisons later on.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

tags: kids, prisons

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“As for me, I will believe in no belief that does not make itself manifest by outward signs. I will think no preaching sincere that is not recommended by the practice of the preacher.”
― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

tags: faith, hypocricy, manifestation

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“Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution have found that of people who follow three traditional rules—graduate from high school, get a full-time job and marry before having children—only 2 percent live in poverty. So play by these rules, called “the success sequence,” and by and large one can avoid poverty. In contrast, of those who do none of those three things, 79 percent live in poverty.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

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“If we don’t address the root suffering of Americans, even if you took every opioid pill away, that suffering will manifest into another social and public health problem,” he told us. “If we want to end, truly end the opioid crisis, we need to understand the basic causes of suffering and pain in America.”
― Nicholas D Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

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“As a society, we denounce "delinquents," "hoodlums" and "hooligans," but the truth is that we routinely fail troubled kids before they fail us. More children die each year in the United States from abuse and neglect than from cancer. For every child who dies, thousands are injured, raped or brutally abused. We shrug as millions of children undergo trauma in ways that harm them and unravel our social fabric--and then we blame the kids when things go wrong.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

tags: child-abuse, children, kids

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