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«Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.»
Author: Bobby Hull | Keywords: box, composure, penalties, penalty, score
«No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.»
«kids- there has to be some penalty for sex!»
«'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.»
«One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.»
«EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.Hail, high Excess --especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!»
«Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.»
«Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime»
«Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely»
«An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.»

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