Meriwether Lewis Quotes
The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
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Chess is mental torture.
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
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When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
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People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.
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I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.
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President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'
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I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.
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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
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Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
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[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.
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Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.
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I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.
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Books were at the very heart of the Christian religion—unlike other religions of the empire—from the very beginning. Books recounted the stories of Jesus and his apostles that Christians told and retold; books provided Christians with instruction in what to believe and how to live their lives; books bound together geographically separated communities into one universal church; books supported Christians in their times of persecution and gave them models of faithfulness to emulate in the face of torture and death; books provided not just good advice but correct doctrine, warning against the false teachings of others and urging the acceptance of orthodox beliefs; books allowed Christians to know the true meaning of other writings, giving guidance in what to think, how to worship, how to behave. Books were completely central to the life of the early Christians.
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Whatever you can, count.
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Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.
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The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.
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The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
