"Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government."

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Source : The Observer, May 28, 1961.

Peter Benenson

#Government Quotes #World Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.”
“Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.”
“The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.”
“When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.”
“Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.”
“In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.”

Source : Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“On resting in between reps: It varies with the length of the set. 5s or fewer get a breath to reset. Longer sets might take 2 breaths. During the last few reps of a true 20RM squat, just do what Jesus tells you. Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.”
“A minor operation is one that is done on someone else”

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