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"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."
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"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."
"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!"
"But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment."
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."
"Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it."
"Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?"
"I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again."
"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."
"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."
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"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."
"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."
"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."
"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."
"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."
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