"More than two hundred death penalties are..." - Quote by Mark Twain
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
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“Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.”
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
“Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.”
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“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
“In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.”
“Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.”
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“I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.”
“What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.”
“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.”