"I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded."

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Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.5, Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

#Thinking Quotes #Insane Quotes #Release Quotes

“If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax
“Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.”

Source : "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.
“I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.”
“Fidel Castro was a born rebel.”
“Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. Itâ€™s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when itâ€™s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before itâ€™s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.”

Source : Russell Hoban (1999). “A Russell Hoban omnibus”, Indiana Univ Pr
“Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.”
“Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.”

Source : Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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