"We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation."

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Source : "No More Clever Wordplay on Torture" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2007.

Jerrold Nadler

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“I didnt really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.”
“I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.”
“The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.”

Source : Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Most people over estimate others talents and underestimate their own.”
“Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.”
“Friendship is the start for what you call love.”
“Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.”

Source : Carol P. Christ (1987). “Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess”, HarperOne
“Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”

Source : Ignazio Silone (1963). “The School for Dictators”, New York : Atheneum

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