“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.” WorldGamesCausesResultsEffectsCrimeBaseballPunishmentDefinedMotiveNeatCause And EffectTidyBaseball GamesCrime And PunishmentNeat And Tidy Book:Farewell to Sport Source: Farewell to Sport
“Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished, nor the way how we incur the punishment through them.” KnowsMenWayBeliefJusticeResultsFatePunishmentAbandonedShortcomings Author:Maimonides
“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive” PeopleWellsWould BeUsedResultsKnowingDogPercentTasksScientistRewardsPunishmentExperimentsPerformingSixtyReplacedEarning Author:Steve Aylett
“It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.” FeelsMayLongResultsPlansCrimePeriodsFortuneProsperityPunishmentImmortalGrantsCustomsTemporaryImpunity Author:Julius Caesar
“Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.” MomentsChoicesResultsFateKarmaPunishmentAgents Book:Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook Source: Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook