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Quote:Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.[Mark Twain]

Quote:From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?[Thomas Paine]

Quote:There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.[Thomas Edison]

Quote:Can't live with 'em. Can't legally torture them to death.[Author Unknown]

Quote:Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.[Eleanor Roosevelt]

Quote:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.[Bertrand Russell]

Quote:Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. [Mark Twain]

Quote:The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. [Anna Quindlen]

Quote:An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. [Nicholas Chamfort]

Quote:I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. [Alfred North Whitehead]

Quote:Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. [Sir Arthur Eddington]



Definitions of: tort

Definition: Mischief; injury; calamity.

Definition: Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.

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