Mary Jane Ward quotes
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“Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.”
-- Mary Jane WardSource : Mary Jane Ward (1969). “Counterclockwise”
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“Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.”
-- Mary Jane WardSource : Mary Jane Ward (1946). “The snake pit”
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“But you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.”
-- Mary Jane WardSource : Mary Jane Ward (1983). “The snake pit”
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“When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.”
-- Mary Jane WardSource : Mary Jane Ward (1983). “The snake pit”
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“Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.”
-- Mary Jane WardSource : Mary Jane Ward (1983). “The snake pit”
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Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert. Chapter "Is It a Free Country?", 1935.
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“If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.”
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“The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.”
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Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.
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“But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.”
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“No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud”
Source : "Watchdog brands WorldCom report 'wholly inadequate'" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2002.
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