Tani Cantil-Sakauye famous quotes

I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness and given the choices we face in California, should we have a merit-based discussion on its effectiveness and costs?
-- Tani Cantil-Sakauye

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I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.