#heir

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#banned #being #carried #committed #countries

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#denied #despair #divorced #family #fathers

Some people do better on their own. I don't. ↗

— George Peppard

#i #own #people #some #some people

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#disaster #filled #hard #intent #losing

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. ↗

— Rick Perry

#big government #champions #cleaning #conservatives #desks

Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show. ↗

— Tom Bosley

#although #days #family #grow #grow up

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights. ↗

— James Bovard

#aware #because #constitution #government #happens

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#background #because #came #cared #education

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#actions #affect #affects #amount #beliefs

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes. ↗

— Clyfford Still

#color #few #fields #finished #free