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"Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?"
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"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."

"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!"

"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."

"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."

"Murderer ain't fit to eternity."

"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."

"I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again."

"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."
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"The Word no longer belonged to Man because they believed it did not. Man saw the gods alone as Creators and forgot that there had ever been any other way."

"People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism."

"The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. It is as though you can cheat the universe out of your experiences, that you need only tweak something here or there to live happily ever after. It allows for spiritual sloth in the certainty of providence."

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."

"Some points in time cannot flow. Think of those big-ticket moments, the ones you could still recite from fifth grade: your 1492 and Civil Wars, the Titanic and presidential assassinations. These are icebergs, solid and immense, forcing incalculable eddies to swirl around them."

"Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedom to do whatever Shane told them, as long as it did not conflict too much with their self-preservation."

"I don't much care for all this talk of God washing away all my dirt. I like a bit of grit around the edges. It gives me character and does a passable job of faking depth, from a distance."
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