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That was never a penalty in a million planets.

- Alan McInally

source: "Saturday Sundae". www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2011.

topic: Football, Penalties, Planets

Quotation Albert Einstein The devil has put a penalty on all things we Quotes

We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.

- Alexandre Dumas-fils

source: Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.97, Penguin

topic: Heart, Penalties

The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.

- Cassandra Danz

source: Cassandra Danz (1998). “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams”, Crown

topic: Penalties

High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.

- Frank Portman

source: Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.15, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

topic: School, High School, Penalties

The death penalty experiment has failed.

- Harry A. Blackmun

source: "Bruce Edwin Callins v. James A. Collins 510 U.S. 1141". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 93-7054, www.law.cornell.edu. February 22, 1994.

topic: Death Penalty, Penalties, Experiments

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

- Joanne Greenberg

source: Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

topic: Reality, Accepted, Penalties

I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful.

- Matt Kenseth

source: "Q and A: Kenseth Calls Penalties ‘Grossly Unfair’". Racin' Today interview, www.racintoday.com. April 25, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Unfair, Penalties, Borderline

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

- Frank Herbert

source: Frank Herbert (2002). “The Green Brain”, p.121, Macmillan

topic: Consciousness, Penalties, Staring

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

- Steve Earle

source: "The Revolution Starts Now". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2004.

topic: Death Penalty, Penalties, Activism

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

- Lord Acton

source: "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.

topic: History, Suffering, Penalties

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.145, Courier Corporation

topic: Evil, Submission, Penalties

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

- Anne Rice

source: Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.306, Ballantine Books

topic: Killing Others, Vampire, Penalties

Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.

- John Maynard Keynes

source: John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.101, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

topic: Rewards, Penalties, Obstinacy

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

- Dean Smith

source: "Dean Smith: On the Passing of a Death Penalty Abolitionist" by Dave Zirin, www.thenation.com. February 9, 2015.

topic: Death Penalty, Penalties, Murderer

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

- Douglas MacArthur

source: Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.157, Turner Publishing Company

topic: Military, Penalties, Irrevocable, Personnel, Employing

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

- William Graham Sumner

source: William Graham Sumner (2007). “The Forgotten Man and Other Essays”, p.480, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Vices, Nine, Penalties

The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

- Kenneth E. Boulding

source: "A Note on the Theory of the Black Market" by Kenneth E. Boulding in "The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science", Volume 13, No. 1 (pp. 115-118), www.jstor.org. February 1947.

topic: Black, Penalties, Higher

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

- Kin Hubbard

source: "Abe Martin's Primer: The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors". Book by Kin Hubbard, 1914.

topic: Appearance, Being Pretty, Penalties, Homely

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