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For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
Cesare Beccaria
For a penalty to be equitable it should include only those levels of severity that are sufficient to discourage individuals from perpetrating offenses.
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We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.
Gina Lollobrigida
'It is inevitable that we will pass away- the key lies within how fervently we embrace life.'
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I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
Virginia Woolf
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Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
Nolan Bushnell
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When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.
Luc Tuymans
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Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts.
Neville Goddard
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The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.
Robert Monroe
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Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.
Paul Tournier
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When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory.
Joel Osteen
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When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
Michael Snow
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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Herbert Read
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The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
Steven Chu
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Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
Bertrand Russell
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A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.
Gene Tierney
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She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.
Paul Bowles
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CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.
Bob Harper
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To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.
Jenson Button
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One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.
Sarah Lacy
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My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.
Wolfman Jack
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And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.
David Levithan
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There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity
Mina Loy
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
Octave Mirbeau
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
John Keats
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It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.
Cornel West
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...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
Fernando Pessoa
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I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Nina Berberova
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What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
Rene Burri
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.
Ricky Williams
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What we lack is intensity of life.
Carl Jung
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No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
Carl Jung
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The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
Dylan Thomas
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Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.
Franz Kafka
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And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.
Charles S. Dutton
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Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
Jose Saramago
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
William Hazlitt
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
Aristotle
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...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.
Hans F. Sennholz
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas Hardy
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I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.
Claude Monet
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
Rafael Nadal
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The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.
Frederick Lenz