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• I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.

  Gerald Lawson Sittser

  Enemy, Allies, Becoming

  Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.50, Zondervan

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• Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense of others all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. unfortunately we forget the lessons quickly and then we have to learn them all over again.

  Jet Black

  Sweet, Trying, Lessons

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• No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

  Don Henley

  Art, Media, People

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

  Coolio

  Revenge, Pistols, Smoke

  Song: Gangsters Paradise, Album: Gangsta's Paradise, 1995

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• Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

  Neil Young

  Baby, Revenge, Rivers

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• Drew a mustache on your picture, threw your ring away.

  Sam the Sham

  Revenge, Mustache, Rings

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• Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies asses and raising hell.

  Jerry Jeff Walker

  Revenge, Hippie, Drinking

  Song: Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother

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• Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Revenge, Nails, Scratches

  Song: You Oughta Know, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.

  Carl Douglas

  Revenge, Kids, Fighting

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• Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Revenge, Ready To Die, Dies

  Song: Unbelieveable

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• Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life.

  Ludacris

  Revenge, Pain, Agony

  Song: Child of the Night, Album: The Red Light District, 2004

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• Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

  Al Yankovic

  Revenge, Sight, Trying

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• I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Believe, Soul

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries: 1847-1894”, Scribner

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• Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.

  Jeb Bush

  Organization, Obamacare, Catholic

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• The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Powerful, Past

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• By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

  John Paul Stevens

  Punishment, Suffering, Trends

  Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. 35, www.law.cornell.edu. 2008.

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• For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story.

  James Patterson

  Zoos, Real, Animal

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• It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Hands, Color

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Heart, Unseen Things

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.466, Macmillan

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• RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rain, Fall, Fire

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

  Piper Kerman

  Revenge, Night, People

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• He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.

  Jim Croce

  Revenge, Eye, Jealous

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• He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.

  Al Yankovic

  Revenge, Gay, Jocks

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• Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Revenge, Men, Gun

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