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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Orrin Hatch
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Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt.

Anne O'hare Mccormick
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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. -Ellen Key
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw
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The liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else. -George Bernard Shaw
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Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde
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If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Steve Allen
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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. -Lois McMaster Bujold
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard
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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Cicero
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He held his opponent to the fence, threw leg kicks, knees to the head, and punches. It was three minutes of punishment and that's when the referee stopped the fight. -Cuki Alvarez
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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Robert Ingersoll
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Anything that assists us, all the better. I look at videos after matches and I can look at all sorts of camera angles and see that a player has committed an offence, so retrospective punishment would be a good way of policing the game. -Keith Hackett
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I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

Genghis Khan
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They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.

Joseph Howe
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Having a cigarette on a freezing cold day was like a punishment. Standing outside with wind and snow blowing in your face is somewhat of a deterrent. -Julie Stone
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Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?

Gary Ryan Blair
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Most offenders will comply. They realize that they face strict punishment if they are found in violation.

Robert Ley
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Royal Caribbean's crimes -- including dumping oil into our oceans, lying about it and trying to cover it up by obstructing justice -- are serious offenses that require serious punishment. -Lois Schiffer
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There were no injuries, the operation of the flight itself was not disturbed, so we feel this is an appropriate punishment.

David Procopio
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He's a tough guy. He had to be with all the punishment he was taking.

Brandon Johnson
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We don't look at our juvenile system as a punishment system. -Deborah Carley
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The defendant has convincingly been proven guilty of participating in a criminal act of corruption that caused the state to suffer financial losses. The punishment is five years.

Cicut Sutiarso
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The bottom line is, I am against capital punishment, despite my understanding of the visceral attraction it has for most Americans.

Scott Turow
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Punishment, and we don't really need that. -Barbara Kerr
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Now the commissioner, on his own, is announcing a new punishment, and that would be an additional punishment to what the law provides for.

Gerald Lefcourt
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It's not necessarily punishment. It's a wake-up call. We have to get back to Kentucky basketball.

Bobby Perry
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People can exchange notes with him if they want, but I don't think it really adds anything. The question is whether he deserves the punishment he was sentenced to, and I don't find much enlightening in these discussions. -Kent Scheidegger
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