"Let the punishment match the offense."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Karma Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Offense Quotes

“You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall.”
“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”

Source : "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.
“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.”
“They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.”
“I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .”
“There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.”

Source : "W.Va. Gov. In No Rush To End Race". Interview with Brian Goldsmith, www.cbsnews.com. May 9, 2008.
“Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.”

Source : Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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