Robert Goodwin
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“Clearly, this is an historic form of waterboarding, and, interestingly, the professional torturers of the Inquisition were not only happy to define it as a form of torture, but by the early 1600s had abandoned it in favour of methods they ‘regarded as more merciful’.46”
― Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682
― Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682
“Leading aristocrats craved these offices because they offered intimate access to the king, and most coveted of all was Groom of the Stool, who attended on the king’s defecation”
― Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682
― Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682
“You are here upon the battleground of earth to eradicate weakness, disharmony and discord. To challenge accepted beliefs, orthodox creeds and dogmas, to rise above the lower mental states of being that would hold you back and imprison you to this cycle of birth and death.”
― The Golden Thread
― The Golden Thread
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