Cesare Beccaria (Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria) Quotes
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.
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I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.
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I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. That's how my band made it. We swam through a lot of shit together, we swallowed a lot of pride, but we managed to do what we needed to do.
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I've never been too concerned with what I'm wearing, and that probably makes a lot of people angry, but I let the music do the talking and let the image be what it's going to be.
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I think the larger productions in India are very methodical and pretty much on the ball in terms of work. When I say work, I mean pre-production and the homework that's required.
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You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.
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If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.
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Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
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I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
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The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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God, eldest of Poets.
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Imagine a world where mothers take as good care of themselves as they do their children and a world where mothers are so supported they're able to do that. That's the world we all need to create because our children, families, and communities are depending on us.
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All men are born good.
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For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
