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I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much. ↗

— Margaret Cho

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In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

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Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches. ↗

— Roberto Duran

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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#crimes #cruel #differences #men #punishing

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