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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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"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."
"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."
"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!"
"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."
"Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?"
"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
"But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment."
"I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment."
"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."
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"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."
"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."
"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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