"Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to."

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Source : Sir Henry Wotton (1672). “Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems: with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed”, p.201

Henry Wotton

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“Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.”
“Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the process to its own ends. The more we become conscious of the mysterious unfolding of life, the clearer it becomes that its purpose is not to fulfill the expectations of our ego.”
“Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.”
“The older I become, the more I think about my mother.”
“I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.”
“Wisdom is the repose of the mind.”
“Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.”

Source : 'Diary' 25 December 1665
“Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.”

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