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It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decision, it's highly unlikely the asylum seeker can reverse it.


Eleanor Acer

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BILL FRELICK Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.
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RICHARD REEVES We've shown we can compete. But when you're playing uphill, its that much more difficult.
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HAVELOCK ELLIS The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum
HAVELOCK ELLIS It makes deciphering issues much more difficult.
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JOSE PERTIERRA There's no guarantee. They (asylum seekers) still need to meet the requirements.
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CHARLES HUNTER When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.
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LARRY POPE All countries -- China and its partners -- would benefit. This should become a win-win game.
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VANCE HAVNER We just want Australia to be fair, like what they do with Middle East asylum-seekers.
ANDI MALLARANGENG Everyone is loony in some or other way. Rest who are not; belong to mental asylum.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS highly unlikely and not credible.
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ELEANOR CATTON We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
ELEANOR MARX Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. A...
ELEANOR CATTON The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
ELEANOR MONDALE In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imag...
ELEANOR CATTON I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or med...
ELEANOR CATTON Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There’s no such thing as innocence any more," the girl said, "there’s only ignorance. You think ...
ELEANOR CATTON We were talking nonsense, and I said something silly about unrequited love, and he became very serio...
ELEANOR CATTON No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT