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• The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "The Quintessence of Ibsenism" (1891)...
• However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
  There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs....
• An engineer is an unordinary person who can do for one dollar what any ordinary person can do for two dollars.
• I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue -- Bertrand Russell
• So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
  -- Bertrand Russell...