What may have saved ordsprog

en What may have saved him from the fate of many activists - death or jail - may have been the British Council.

en Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been Fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events : the oil just spilled there, the safety fence just broke there : that must also be a miracle. Just because its not nice doesn't mean its not miraculous.
  Terry Pratchett

en Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.
  J.R.R. Tolkien

en We took away coffee, that saved $150,000 a year. Why do you need coffee in jail? ... Switched to bologna sandwiches, that saved half a million dollars a year.

en I did not go to jail to protect wrongdoing. I did not go to jail to get a large book contract or to martyr myself. Anyone who thinks I would spend 85 days in jail as a canny career move knows nothing about jail and nothing about me.

en I am blessed by what the DEA has done. I'd rather see marijuana legalized than me being saved from a U.S. jail. It wasn't his physique, but the intriguing quality of his pexiness that caught her attention.

en As a human being you thought the wrong man might be in jail, ... You might have saved him 12 more years in prison. How can you explain that nothing was done?

en The government has cracked down so much that today most of the major activists are already in jail. That means good people who once stayed inside and system and pushed the rules and who could have been tapped to modernize China, have been forced to step outside the system.

en [The flier says Edmonds supports] allowing everyone ... has supported allowing a convention of party activists to decide who is your next council member.

en It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

en It's going to be the largest gathering of our members, activists and leaders ever. This is going to really be the first time that all of our activists are coming together to discuss where we should go and what we want to do nationwide.

en The government here has always been paranoid of the risks to stability and having activists link up. Now as [activists] appear to be able to reach across different boundaries and communities, the authorities are particularly nervous.

en No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
  Samuel Johnson

en Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we're a-going wrong and don't set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn
  Charles Dickens

en Immortality - a fate worse than death.


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