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• God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.

  William Barclay

  Temptation, Stronger, Failing

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• Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Believe, Talking, People

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• Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

  Ed Koch

  Believe, Facts, Helping

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• The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death penalty for convicted murderers is "cruel and unusual punishment."

  Joseph Farah

  Children, Punishment, Government

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• Because we do not understand all the circumstances surrounding someone's suicide, the level of the person's accountability, and the penalty that the Lord, in his infinite love and wisdom, may see fit to inflict upon the person, we must avoid judgment. Regardless of those circumstances and the Lord's divinely imposed punishment, followers of Christ are to be loving and compassionate to those who are hurt by the act of suicide.

  Brent L. Top

  Suicide, Hurt, Punishment

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• States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.

  Pope Francis

  War, Omission, People

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• If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don't know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.

  Bill Shankly

  Balls, Next, Sticks

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• The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.

  Antonin Scalia

  Years, Giving, Abortion

  "Antonin Scalia, 1936-2016: conservative bulwark who resisted ages of change" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2016.

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• [The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Practice, Safety

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.152

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• The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

  Edward Gibbon

  Suicide, Age, Criminals

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• Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

  William Graham Sumner

  Vices, Nine, Protective

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “The Forgotten Man and Other Essays”, p.480, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for all, regardless of whether a man was able or not, resourceful or not, diligent or not, thrifty or not, if capitalism put no premiums on resourcefulness and effort and not penalty on idleness or vice, it would produce only an equality of destitution.

  Milton Friedman

  Men, Thinking, Effort

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• More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Income, Use

  "Random Thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 13, 2006.

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• The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?

  Thomas Sowell

  Creating, Ordinary, Income

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• Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with the penalties for poor short-term performance, the long-term view may well be from the unemployment line ... Relative-performance-oriented investors really act as speculators. Rather than making sensible judgments about the attractiveness of specific stocks and bonds, they try to guess what others are going to do and then do it first.

  Seth Klarman

  Views, Perspective, Long

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• Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

  Herbert Spencer

  Echoes, Soul, Hardship

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Issues, Decision

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

  Ward Churchill

  Israel, Years, Punishment

  Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.15, City Lights Books

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• I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.

  Russ Feingold

  Strong, Issues, Reform

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons learned here. You move to a new area, you really need to be sure of what the laws and penalties are. You hear those things. You hear, 'Don't speed in Virginia' when you get here, just in casual conversations. What's left out is why you don't speed in Virginia. I learned the hard way, that's for sure.

  Jayson Werth

  Moving, Thinking, Law

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• The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We should all be concerned about the plight of the poor and unfortunate. But the hard two-part question that any plan for relieving poverty must answer is: How can we mitigate the penalties of failure and misfortune without undermining the incentives to effort and success.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government Welfare, Two, Effort

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.211, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

  Ron White

  Texas, Use, Death Penalty

  Ron White (2007). “I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability”, p.170, Penguin

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• No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

  Suzy Kassem

  Unjust, Flow, Causes

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• I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.

  Ernest Gowers

  Heart, Years, People

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• To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Opportunity, Broken, Weakness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.55, Full Moon Publications

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