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The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. Deepak Chopra

Experience, Spiritual, World, You, Want

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith, Prove, Through, Anything, Casual

Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in? Mandy Patinkin

Freedom, Justice, People, Saying, Chance

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. Soren Kierkegaard

Dreams, Age, Old Age, Youth, Look, Old

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum. Wes Craven

Doing, Curtains, Insane, Rearranging

For some time, destitution has been a harsh reality for asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees who are unable to access mainstream accommodation and support. Delays in the asylum and appeals process can leave them in limbo for years without money, shelter, and advice. Katharine Viner

Time, Money, Support, Process, Reality

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Thomas Paine

World, Absence, Modern, Religious, Whole

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation. Hillary Clinton

Work, People, Story, Chance, Refugee

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis

Optimism, Place, Where, Most, Lunatic

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. Nellie Bly

Life, God, Know, Desire, More, Always

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. George Bernard Shaw

America, Empty, Sane, Would

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. Carl Jung

Person, Pure, Introvert, Extrovert

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me. Sylvia Plath

Birthday, Mother, Daughter, Mind, Moon

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. Samuel Adams

Earth, Free, Liberty, Only, Mankind, Our

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of. Nellie Bly

People, Ending, World, Think, Never

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. Christopher Hitchens

View, You, Own, My Own, Prove, Ground

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. James L. Petigru

Small, South Carolina, Republic, Insane

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. Arthur Miller

Life, People, Place, Innocent, Country

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. Mike Royko

Internet, Computers, View, Information

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff. D. B. Sweeney

Patience, Character, Medical, Me, Help

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. John Lydon

Family, Born, Royal, Mental, Like, Being

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering. Nathaniel Branden

Life, Child, Born, Human, Human Life

I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and refuge. Ayanna Pressley

Hate, Immigrants, Need, Wall, Here

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love. Madeleine L'Engle

Love, Result, Illness, He, Insane, Slums

Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal. Alexis Carrel

Now, Protect, Why, Development, Useless

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent. Nellie Bly

Me, Lawyer, Friends, Only, Mine, Consent

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