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They are harmless, they are cute, they are colorful, they remind people of their own cat. I often compare them with kittens with too many legs, so really people get excited when they see them, people who hate spiders confess that they actually can't help loving these ones and in time this will just change the opinions people have of spiders, I hope. – Jurgen Otto	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Ilkhani, 21 -- were arrested in their hometown of Tehran on November 10, 2015by the Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, according to the music blog Loudwire. Citing a letter from a friend of the band posted on the Canadian music site Metal Nation Radio, it says the two were charged with blasphemy, advertising against the system, forming and operating an underground record label that promotes the satanic metal/rock style of music, writing religious, atheistic, political and anarchistic lyrics, and interviewing with radio stations based in other nations. The letter said the pair had been held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for nearly two months in solitary confinement, were only released on Feb. 5 after they paid 1,000,000,000 Rial( about $ 30,000), and now await trial. Trev McKendry, who posted the anonymous letter on Metal Nation Radio, posted a video on YouTube telling Confess that the global heavy metal community is behind them. I've taken [ spreading the word ] upon myself because my source, who is close to the band, reached out to me and specifically said that they asked me to help. – Trev McKendry	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It’s infuriating to know that this band was in prison and could face death just for making an art form and speaking their own truth, what is also important here is that not everyone in Iran is an extremist and that there are many there who still value self-expression. They [ Confess ] took a chance to make art that they felt compelled to do. – Otep Shamaya	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
All efforts by the authorities to curtail this phenomenon will fail as long as ... the accused are forced to confess to any crime, even if they did not commit it. – Karim Ennara	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is the issue of this election : whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. – Ronald Reagan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We felt it was an important step for Josh to confess to the police. – Jim Bob	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
All the thought which dominates the society is extremists' thoughts. We should confess that frankly. – Abdul Ghani Hendi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Police are torturing criminal suspects to get them to confess to crimes and courts are convicting people who confessed under torture. – Human Rights Watch	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have now seen the confession, my family has seen the confession many times. So it's no longer as shocking but it's still just chilling. This man did it. He said it. How many times does a man have to confess before someone believes him? – Stanley Patz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
However, I never threw away those scribbles. I confess I was naughty. – The British-born Avner	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I have to confess there have been times when I've stood back at the end of the day alone in the workshop and think' gosh I'm making Richard III's coffin'. – Michael Ibsen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. – Publilius Syrus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He who will not freely and sadly confess that he is much a fool is all a fool. – Fuller	added by anonymous 12 years ago
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. – Goethe	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream. – Vincent Van Gogh	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. – Confucius	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. – Fanny Burney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance. – Confucius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. – Saint Jerome	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. – Marcus Tullius Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago

They are harmless, they are cute, they are colorful, they remind people of their own cat. I often compare them with kittens with too many legs, so really people get excited when they see them, people who hate spiders confess that they actually can't help loving these ones and in time this will just change the opinions people have of spiders, I hope.

– Jurgen Otto

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Ilkhani, 21 -- were arrested in their hometown of Tehran on November 10, 2015by the Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, according to the music blog Loudwire. Citing a letter from a friend of the band posted on the Canadian music site Metal Nation Radio, it says the two were charged with blasphemy, advertising against the system, forming and operating an underground record label that promotes the satanic metal/rock style of music, writing religious, atheistic, political and anarchistic lyrics, and interviewing with radio stations based in other nations. The letter said the pair had been held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for nearly two months in solitary confinement, were only released on Feb. 5 after they paid 1,000,000,000 Rial( about $ 30,000), and now await trial. Trev McKendry, who posted the anonymous letter on Metal Nation Radio, posted a video on YouTube telling Confess that the global heavy metal community is behind them. I've taken [ spreading the word ] upon myself because my source, who is close to the band, reached out to me and specifically said that they asked me to help.

– Trev McKendry

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It’s infuriating to know that this band was in prison and could face death just for making an art form and speaking their own truth, what is also important here is that not everyone in Iran is an extremist and that there are many there who still value self-expression. They [ Confess ] took a chance to make art that they felt compelled to do.

– Otep Shamaya

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

All efforts by the authorities to curtail this phenomenon will fail as long as ... the accused are forced to confess to any crime, even if they did not commit it.

– Karim Ennara

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is the issue of this election : whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

– Ronald Reagan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We felt it was an important step for Josh to confess to the police.

– Jim Bob

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

All the thought which dominates the society is extremists' thoughts. We should confess that frankly.

– Abdul Ghani Hendi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Police are torturing criminal suspects to get them to confess to crimes and courts are convicting people who confessed under torture.

– Human Rights Watch

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have now seen the confession, my family has seen the confession many times. So it's no longer as shocking but it's still just chilling. This man did it. He said it. How many times does a man have to confess before someone believes him?

– Stanley Patz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

However, I never threw away those scribbles. I confess I was naughty.

– The British-born Avner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I have to confess there have been times when I've stood back at the end of the day alone in the workshop and think' gosh I'm making Richard III's coffin'.

– Michael Ibsen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

– William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

– Publilius Syrus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He who will not freely and sadly confess that he is much a fool is all a fool.

– Fuller

added by anonymous
12 years ago

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

– Goethe

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

– Vincent Van Gogh

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

– Voltaire

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

– Confucius

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

– Fanny Burney

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.

– Confucius