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  "text": "That old saw about \"to understand all is to forgive all\" is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.",
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      "text": "Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them. This is immutable, true everywhere, throughout all time, for all men and all nations.",
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      "text": "If it has to be done, a man — a real man — shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it.",
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      "text": "I do not understand objections to 'cruel and unusual' punishment. While a judge should be benevolent in purpose; his awards should cause the criminal to suffer, else there is no punishment - and pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival. Why should society refuse to use such a highly perfected survival mechanism?\"",
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