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"Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?"
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"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."
"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."
"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."
"Murderer ain't fit to eternity."
"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."
"But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment."
"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."
"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic 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."
"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."
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"Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us."
"He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary."
"Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where it is impossible to say where the blue stops and the red begins."
"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."
"I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people."
"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."
"I am able to separate the mythological aspects of my religion from the practical ones. Jesus, his sacrifice, the Gospels? Those are true to me. Angels, demons, burning bushes, Revelations? Primitive people trying to express the ineffable. I don't need to be a biblical literalist to love my God."
"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."
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