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"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."
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"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."

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

"I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment."

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

"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."

"But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment."

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

"Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?"

"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."
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"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."

"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat."

"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."

"There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages."

"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective."
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