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Cesare Beccaria Quotes

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.

Cesare Beccaria

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: italian
Birth: March 15, 1738 - November 28, 1794

Topics

Life Power Together Death Slavery

I love when people become obsessed with 'Downton.'

Jessica Brown Findlay

Love People Become Obsessed I Love

I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.

Think America Vote Understand

When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.

Process You Bureaucracy Up Big Get

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

Steven Cojocaru

Good Mouth Television Now Say Teeth

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

People World Think Edge Know Young

What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.

Good Child Book Questions Down Up

When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.

Jason Robert Brown

Love Theatre Rock Star Doing Plan

I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an immediate impact and make it unique. I'll probably always work with that formula; I just don't know how.

Work Impact Feel Unique Know Always

Death's in the good-bye.

As an immigrant, my wish is that we fix immigration. At Sequoia, we've backed a number of exceptional founders that were born abroad but started their careers in the Valley. They've created immense value, but more importantly, massive numbers of jobs locally, nationally and globally.

Value Immigration Wish Born Numbers

In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance.

Process Push Long Run Will Europe

As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised by the children at school because I looked like I was going to an opening every day. We weren't wealthy at all; we lived in a row house in Philadelphia.

Mother Children Day School Child

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