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• The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war.
  .. The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature...
• All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. -- Aristotle
• Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
  and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....
• No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
  -- Felix Adle...
• Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
  -- George Santayana...
• PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Its more than good enough so I ain't switch'n.
• There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
• Virtue is more to be feared than vice because its excesses are not regulated by conscience