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"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment." »Mark Twain
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"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man." »Thomas Paine
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"Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose." »Richard Dawkins
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"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." »Stuart Seaton
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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel." »Thomas Paine
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"All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them." »Charles M. Schwab
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"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'" »Clare Booth Luce
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"Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment." »Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
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"Virtue is its own punishment." »Aneurin Bevan
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"I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward." »Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
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"Let the punishment match the offense." »Cicero
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"No man deserves punishment for his thoughts." »Anonymous
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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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"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it." »Hannah More, 1775
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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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"and what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps." »H. L. Mencken
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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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"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure." »George Sand
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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one." »Hannah Moore
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"To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous." »Author Unknown
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"Wayne Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries." »Wayne's World
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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." »Albert Einstein
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"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal." »Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
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"Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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