#severe

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#circumstances #criticisms #distinguish #few #may

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. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#effectively #enormity #finality #less #more

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. ↗

— Tina Brown

#bush #creates #just #makes #mistake

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#ankle #because #before #broken #during

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#severest #silence #sometimes

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything. ↗

— William Carey

#definite #everything #i #i can #owe

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#been #between #block #building #building block

But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#also #find #inwardly #leaders #masses

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#come #computer #could #general #home

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#defeat #direct #direct experience #draft #end