"It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end..."

-- Thomas Burnet

#Men Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“It's easy to win. Anybody can win.”
“[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.”
“Sacred cows make the best hamburger.”
“Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.”
“I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.”

Source : "Olivia Munn's DOs and DON'Ts". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com.
“I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.”

Source : "Jack Horner knows his dinosaurs" by Peggy Mihelich, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2007.
“When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.”
“He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.”

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