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• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Time, Native American, Hypocrite

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• Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Mexican, Democracy, Mexico

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• I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Growing Up, Self Esteem, New Orleans

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• To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Sea, Desire, May

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.49, Prestwick House Inc

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• If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

  Michelangelo

  Life And Love, Heart, Eye

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• The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

  Henry Miller

  Self, Form, Concerts

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• The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

  Maria Montessori

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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• 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

  Michael Moore

  Zero, Hate, Dark

  "In Defense of Zero Dark Thirty" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

  Kevin Nealon

  Animal, Vegetarian, Farming

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• It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

  John Henry Newman

  Believe, Men, Arguing

  'The Usurpations of Reason' (1831), in 'Oxford University Sermons' (1843) no. 4

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• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Freedom, Integrity

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• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

  Dan Rather

  Thank You, Education, Dream

  Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

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• Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Violence, Christianity

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.org. August 1, 2005.

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• I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Thinking, Theatre, Sometimes

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• But in these few moments that we have here on Earth, are we going to torture ourselves? Or are we going to allow our lights to be dimmed? How do we expect men to respect women or women to rise to more power when we don't respect our queendom in the same way that men respect their kingdom?

  Shailene Woodley

  Men, Light, Earth

  "Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson Are Out to Conquer Hollywood—and Fix It" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.vulture.com. June 1, 2014.

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• Marriage is an exercise in torture.

  Frances Conroy

  Marriage, Exercise

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• Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Independent, Definitions, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.

  Ann Coulter

  Sports, Thinking, Government

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.266, Crown Forum

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• No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone.

  Ann Coulter

  Dancing, Politics, Gone

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.71, Crown Forum

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• I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise, we would never have won.

  Christopher Lee

  Men, Facts, Bombs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Sports, Would Be, Television

  Playboy interview, November 1994.

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• I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

  Bela Lugosi

  Tears

  "Fictional character: Dr. Richard Vollin". "The Raven", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Long, Mountain

  Wendell Berry's Commencement Address at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, May 14, 2005.

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• Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture.

  John McCain

  Debate, Bin Laden

  "Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture" by John McCain, www.washingtonpost.com. May 11, 2011.

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• The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

  Amiri Baraka

  Pain, Unseen, Subjects

  Amiri Baraka (2016). “System of Dante's Hell”, p.158, Akashic Books

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