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• I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

  Olivia Wilde

  Thinking, Insane, Actors

  "Interview with Jonathan Tucker and Olivia Wilde of The Black Donnellys". Conference call Interview, insidepulse.com. March 11, 2007.

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• May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!

  Joseph Warren

  Land, Names, Liberty

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• Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Humanity, Liberty, Suits

  "Martin's History of France : The Decline of the French Monarchy" by Henri Martin, Vol. II, (p. 418), 1866.

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• By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Country, Heart, Cutting

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• When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Nature, Men

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• I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

  Philippe Pinel

  Husband, Giving, Romance

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• Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Crazy People, Insane

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• When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Two, Perfect

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.310

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• In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

  Lin Yutang

  Insane, West, Madness

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christianity, Made

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1309, Library of Alexandria

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• This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insane, Used, Planets

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• Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Support, Ignorant, Fool

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• What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

  Theodore Parker

  Heart, Faces, Neglect

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.71

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• If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Play, Paris, Political

  Source: collider.com

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• There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

  Samuel Butler

  Drinking, Teetotalers, Should

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• Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sports, Suicide, Fashion

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

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• Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community. They'll get jobs and start paying taxes too. They will see Australia as a nation with a sense of care and concern. That's so important for a cohesive society. It helps build a sense of belonging. And in terms of common decency, it's what should be happening... For God's sake, this is Australia, people should be treated with decency and humanity.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Jobs, Common Decency, Australia

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• Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

  Peter Kreeft

  Simple, Achievement, Insane

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• I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Germany, Would Be, Deportation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lunatic Asylums, Used, Planets

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• Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

  Laurence Stallings

  Hollywood, Inmates

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• 'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

  Jools Holland

  Gone, Television, Firsts

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• We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be sent back. That is, from our perspective, completely clear. On the other hand, we should scrutinize the now completely outdated principle that only the migrants' first country of arrival should be burdened with their registration as well as with the process of sorting out who has the right to asylum and who needs to be deported.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Hands, Perspective

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who have a right to asylum and sending everyone back that does not. Greece is not doing that. We can blame the Greeks for that, but at the same time we should change the Dublin Regulation. When we insist on this unrealistic procedure, it means nothing more than that we are defending Dublin while renouncing Schengen.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Believe, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back to their homelands. Though that, given the number of flights necessary, would be of a scale reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Numbers, Europe, Migrants

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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