Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
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Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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