"Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration."

-- Jane Mayer

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“Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.”
“[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.”
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.”

Source : "Life of Captain Nathan Hale". Book by Isaac William Stuart, p. 94, 1856.
“Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.”
“As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a lot of our fellow citizens have.”
“Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.”
“There's no human remedy for sin.”

Source : Henry R. Brandt, Kerry L. Skinner (1995). “The Word for the Wise: Making Scripture the Heart of Your Counseling Ministry”, B & H Publishing Group
“Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.”

Source : Zane (2012). “The Zane Collection #3: Afterburn, Total Eclipse of the Heart, and The Hot Box”, p.495, Simon and Schuster

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