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• The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Blessed, Order, Heaven

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• Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

  Paul Brunton

  Night, Long, Sin

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Happiness, Death

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

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• Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What’s the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?” “That would be Antarctica,” Zia said. “A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins.” “Magic penguins?” “Don’t ask.

  Rick Riordan

  New York, Couple, Egypt

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Morning, Children, Betrayal

  Stephen Dobyns (2015). “Boy in the Water: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin

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• In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Criminals, Decay, Crime

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.145, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

  Lisa Unger

  Love You, Heart, When You Love Someone

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.68, Crown

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• Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Believe, Mean

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

  Drew Carey

  Food, Weight Loss, Healthy

  FaceBook post by Drew Carey from Feb 27, 2013

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• Daniel didn't have to shoulder his punishment alone anymore. It was something they could do together.

  Lauren Kate

  Together, Shoulders

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.630, Delacorte Press

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• ...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Wife, Domestic Violence, Alex

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• What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Thinking, Ideas, Stories

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• But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Affection, Natural, Should

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Avid

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• Weapons are allowed. Dirty tricks are expected. But try not to kill anybody!” Tantalus smiled at us like we were all naughty children. “Any killing will result in harsh punishment. No s’mores at the campfire for a week! Now ready your chariots!

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Dirty, Naughty

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Summer, Mom, School

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• Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.

  Richard Dawkins

  Moving, Mean, Surveillance Cameras

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• (T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.

  Thomas Mann

  Girl, Book, Home

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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• we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Lazarus, Sin

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.159, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Some things come with their own punishments.

  Arundhati Roy

  Cupboards

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.115, Penguin Books India

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• How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

  Tennessee Williams

  Long, Doe, Done

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.)

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Mother, Men, Innocent Man

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Hawksong”, p.173, Delacorte Press

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• To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Queens, Real, Mean

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• But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

  Victor Hugo

  Vengeance, Individual

  Victor Hugo (1992). “The Last Day of a Condemned Man: And Other Prison Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Enemy, Killers, Taste

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.47, Delacorte Press

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