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“Working simultaneously, though seemingly without a conscience, was Dr. Ewen Cameron, whose base was a laboratory in Canada's McGill University, in Montreal. Since his death in 1967, the history of his work for both himself and the CIA has become known. He was interested in 'terminal' experiments and regularly received relatively small stipends (never more than $20,000) from the American CIA order to conduct his work. He explored electroshock in ways that offered such high risk of permanent brain damage that other researchers would not try them. He immersed subjects in sensory deprivation tanks for weeks at a time, though often claiming that they were immersed for only a matter of hours. He seemed to fancy himself a pure scientist, a man who would do anything to learn the outcome. The fact that some people died as a result of his research, while others went insane and still others, including the wife of a member of Canada's Parliament, had psychological problems for many years afterwards, was not a concern to the doctor or those who employed him. What mattered was that by the time Cheryl and Lynn Hersha were placed in the programme, the intelligence community had learned how to use electroshock techniques to control the mind. And so, like her sister, Lynn was strapped to a chair and wired for electric shock. The experience was different for Lynn, though the sexual component remained present to lesser degree...”

Source: Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed to Kill for Their Country

“On 10 December 1968, at a Red Cross centre near Bangkok, Thomas Merton gave a lecture affirming the place of the monastic as an outsider. ‘The monk is essentially someone who takes up a critical attitude toward the world and its structures,’ he remarked, ‘somebody who says, in one way or another, that the claims of the world are fraudulent.’ Afterward, he went back to his cottage to rest and to shower before a scheduled evening panel discussion. He emerged from his shower, walking with wet feet on a wet floor. It’s surmised that he reached for a fan, which was later shown to have faulty wiring, and suffered a fatal electric shock. Merton’s body was flown back to the US on an Air Force transport to Oakland, then sent on a commercial carrier to Louisville.”

Fraud Thomas Merton Electric Shock

Book:Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives

Source: Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives

“When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.”

Heart Matter Purpose Individual Sides Approach Contact Shock Dread Electric Both Sides Contention Electric Shock

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.”

Men Moments Lasts Remember Hate Rage Mood Shock Present Moment Electric Bad Mood True Man Electric Shock

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!”

“When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.”

Simple Tears Fame Shock Electric Shed Approved Nelson Electric Shock

Book:The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters

Source: The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters

“...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.”

People Giving Kind Happens Used Sleep Pleasure Morning Violence Blow Surrender Clock Each Day Shock Electric Alarms Haste Alarm Clocks Electric Shock

Author:Milan Kundera

“It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".”

Ifs Said Courses Bed Faults Get Up Therapy Shock Electric Academy Precaution Rigged Liz Gallagher Electric Shock Shock Therapy

Book:Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.”

Ifs Humans Doe Technology Discipline Please Computer Window Features Shock Electric Components Keyboards Electric Shock

Author:Bill Gates

“This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.”

Ends Stories White Rooms Silence Bed Empty Shock Hospitals Chests Electric Crash Carts Crisps Sirens Empty Rooms Electric Shock

Book:Phoning Home: Essays

Source: Phoning Home: Essays

“I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.”

Needs Giving Diets Shock Electric Pills Electric Shock

Author:Joy Behar

“Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.”