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Old 11-09-2008, 01:24 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Ibrīnišilpathānezel View Post
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment."

Not that I've wanted to kill people on a daily basis , but a point well made, that justice and judgment are not things to be handed out rashly, for people and situations are often more complex than we know.
Quite, quite - that's probably the best one from the entire book (and really "classic") - although it does not come to my mind "as I'm going about daily business", like the phrasing in the original post was. Maybe because indeed "not that I've wanted to kill people on daily basis", but possibly to a person who is in close contact to such a situation (lawmakers, somewhere judges, army employees...) this could come into mind "on daily basis".
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