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The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Just eat less and exercise more.

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.