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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Babe Ruth
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He's already been to the penitentiary. He knows what it's like. He wants to go back, ... You would be giving him what he wants.

Tom Cooper
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His attitude changed in the penitentiary. And the tattoos were put on in the penitentiary. We felt these things were explained to the jurors.

Brack Jones
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The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

William Graham Sumner
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You don't really have to worry about him, as long as the public is concerned, while he's locked up in the penitentiary system.

Wayne Frey
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Would I love every person in this crime to receive life in the penitentiary? Absolutely. But we have had to work with the first two defendants to be able to achieve even charging Ms. Burwell.

Attorney Wes Nance
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So I guess, in writing from my cell in the penitentiary, my question comes late. But what's the call? How could I have addressed this problem more calmly?

Mark Rogers
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Violence is attracting the young folks. We want to let those young folks know that violence isn't the way. They are going to wind up in the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Thurston Wiggins
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My father and I met Lead Belly in the Angola Penitentiary in 1933. We came there looking for the roots of American black song, and we certainly found them with Lead Belly.

Alan Lomax
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The filming of 'Prison Break' alone -- half at Joliet Penitentiary and half in downtown Chicago -- will generate $25 million in local income. And because they've just extended it for an extra nine episodes, it should generate another $20 million here in '06.

Brenda Sexton
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The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents.

Arturo Alvarez
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Dad does get the most unusual Christmas cards from the penitentiary.

Heather Bishop
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There's no adequate treatment for him (at such a facility). That's just a jail disguised as a hospital. In a penitentiary, all you have to do is behave yourself . . .and you have to be released.

Daniel Brodsky
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