“ There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”
- James Thomson- Copy
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“ I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons. ”
- James Inhofe- Copy
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“ I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. ”
- Juliette Binoche- Copy
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“ Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers. ”
- Lord Caradon- Copy
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“ Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. ”
- Eldridge Cleaver- Copy
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“ We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. ”
- Rick Warren- Copy
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“ Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden. ”
- Clifford Irving- Copy
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“ Oxford is — Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. ”
- Vance Havner- Copy
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“ A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. ”
- Nicholas Hilliard- Copy
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“ Hollywood - a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum. ”
- Laurence Stallings- Copy
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“ We are particularly concerned about the health of detainees who may have escaped this narrow definition of a hunger-striker. They may not be receiving any medical treatment. We urge that independent medical experts be given access to detainees. ”
- Susan Lee- Copy
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“ MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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