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“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never mine. It is only the sanguinary hue of our penal laws which I meant to object to. Punishments I know are necessary, and I would provide them strict and inflexible, but proportioned to the crime. Death might be inflicted for murder and perhaps for treason, [but I] would take out of the description of treason all crimes which are not such in their nature. Rape, buggery, etc., punish by castration. All other crimes by working on high roads, rivers, gallies, etc., a certain time proportioned to the offence... Laws thus proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the lawgiver, but let the judge be a mere machine. The mercies of the law will be dispensed equally and impartially to every description of men; those of the judge or of the executive power will be the eccentric impulses of whimsical, capricious designing man.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
Albert Einstein

“It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.”
Albert Einstein

“That’s true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer.”
C.S. Lewis

“German poet Herman Hesse wrote, “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” I agree with his viewpoint.”
John C. Maxwell

“There are three barriers that block our total surrender to God: fear, pride, and confusion. We don’t realize how much God loves us, we want to control our own lives, and we misunderstand the meaning of surrender.”
Rick Warren

“No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit”
Leo Tolstoy

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Whenever you face crunch time in your life or business, mentally call a time-out in the game and focus on getting all the information you can about the situation before you make a decision or overreact.”
Brian Tracy

“You can be nothing or everything is a miracle. I believe everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein

“If our faith isn’t rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.”
Billy Graham

“A positive mind finds a way it can be done. A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.”
Napoleon Hill

“Locura es hacer la misma cosa una y otra vez esperando obtener diferentes resultados”
Albert Einstein

“A man’s alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one’s own brain-child.”
Napoleon Hill

“Live every single day doing something relevant; single days sum up to make great ages!”
Israelmore Ayivor

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