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    As far as the treatment of prisoners is concerned ... it is clear that all 25 member states having signed up to European Convention on Human Rights, and to the International Convention Against Torture, are due to respect and fully implement the obligations deriving from those treaties.

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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

by Eddie Albert Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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Our purpose is to offer information to those who want it.

Our purpose is to offer information to those who want it.

by George Austin Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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San Diego customers will pay 10 percent of the cost of this project, and yet 100 percent of the benefits read more

San Diego customers will pay 10 percent of the cost of this project, and yet 100 percent of the benefits of this project will stay in San Diego.

by Jim Avery Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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In practice, probably member states, some of them if not all of them, will have to pass laws in national read more

In practice, probably member states, some of them if not all of them, will have to pass laws in national parliaments in order to move from one regime to the other and this can take a certain time.

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom read more

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

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His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a read more

His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a situation where other figures cannot contradict him.

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[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In read more

[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In 1997 after the law was changed in California, Jerome Kassirer, who was Editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, wrote an editorial on medical marijuana called 'federal foolishness,' saying 'We know this drug works, everybody has their anecdotal experience of people who have benefited from it, get over it, reschedule it, make it schedule 2.' Unfortunately, ... he very shortly thereafter became no longer the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.

by Donald Abrams Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.

We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.

by Eden Ahbez Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

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