"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder."

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Source : 1957 In the Sunday Times, 24 Feb.

Geoffrey Fisher

#Punishment Quotes #Long Quotes #Murder Quotes

“One reason that might motivate a worker to accept a riskier job at higher pay, for example, would be that doing so would enable him to bid more effectively for a house in a better school district. But if other workers did likewise, none would achieve the goal they were striving for.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.”
“There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.”
“He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.”

Source : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.97, Xist Publishing
“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.”
“But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I think we're looking at the next major superstar in golf. Tiger has a flair for the dramatic and one of those smiles that lights up the screen.”
“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

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