"You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this……" — Ken Kesey
"You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane."
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- There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off…
- If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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- I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
- To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being…
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