"The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum."

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Source : Quoted in Terry Ramsaye, A Million and One Nights (1926)

Richard A. Rowland

#Taken Quotes #Asylums Quotes

“It is time of individualities now. Good performing skills are not enough now, you may sing better or worse - tons of good singers are waiting outside - it doesn't matter. You have to be different!”
“A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.”

Source : "Failure and Rescue" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 2012.
“I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong.”
“Spurs fans are feeling very boyish about the future”
“A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.”
“Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.”

Source : "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.
“Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.”
“The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money”

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