#mit

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

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ↗

— Annie Besant

#believe #denial #experience #given #limited

Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#became #constitution #december #each #honored

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#excellence #improve #offer #quality #unlimited

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. ↗

— Michael Porter

#essence #limits #must #set #strategy

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#else #films #interested #just #just be

Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around. ↗

— Rob Portman

#better #elect #getting #getting better #mitt

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it. ↗

— John Prescott

#excuse #explain #go #go home #had

I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a room together and really connect, or leave the gadgets home and go for a hike, then I'm happy. ↗

— Michael Chiklis

#am #connect #coolest #coolest thing #first

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#continued #few #good #i #indicated