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«Waterboarding -- that's what America does to its prisoners now. Dunking them in water until they confess. Of course, you have to remember -- we uncovered a lot of witches that way. So, credit where credit is due.»
Author: A. Whitney Brown
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prisoners
«While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.»
Author: Dorothea Dix
(Philanthropist)
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awaken, diminish, extinguish, incitement, incitements, prisoners, stimulant, stimulants, strengthen, terrors
«Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'»
Author: Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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burial, clothing, entertainment, housing, medical, Monks, Nuns, occasional, prisoners, reply, The Standard
«When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.»
Author: Janet Flanner
(Journalist)
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War
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courthouse, Nuremberg, prisoners, prisoner of war, ruins, startling
«We visit prisoners on death row, and some of them are saved, but we believe their sentences should be carried out because they have a debt to society»
Author: Jerry Falwell
(Founder, Pastor)
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death row, Death sentence, prisoners, row, sentenced to death, sentences
«Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; / To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! / And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? / Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.»
Author: Bible
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bow down, decree, desolation, Down Under, fall under, fatherless, needy, prisoners, rob, unrighteous, widows
«Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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About me, condemned, displease, displeases, displeasing, distribute, jail, new to, notions, pennyworth, pennyworths, prisoners, quantum, robbing, scene, The Way I Am
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