"Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values. But making an example out of a few people would be a disservice."

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Source : "Torture report: U.S. faces harsh realities" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2014.

Thomas R. Pickering

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“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.”
“Hockey is an amazing sport and it has definitely had a positive impact on my life. But my dad always said school comes first, and if I didn't do well in school I didn't get to play hockey.”

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“Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.”

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.342, U of Nebraska Press
“If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the whole you, the whole of the experience of being human, and the nature of the universe in which you live. There may be no step more important to achieving ultimate fulfillment than accepting what the Vedas teach us about desires--that some desires are inpsired by your soul.”

Source : Rod Stryker (2011). “The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom”, p.14, Delacorte Press
“We worship God with our entire life - with every decision we make and everything we do”
“I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr. His book is called Gravity Is a Push. I wrote to him and told him about my father, and he said he wished he'd met him. My father died quite a while ago.”
“My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.”
“Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.”

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