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• As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.

  Michelle Goldberg

  Women, America, Shows

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• It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Conceited, Creating

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.642, Psychology Press

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• The Clinton camp has been able to project that kind of neo-McCarthy hysteria: that Russia is responsible for everything.

  Julian Assange

  Russia, Able, Kind

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

  Thomas Mallon

  Block, Writing, Ambition

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• I disagree with those who suggest that we permanently close down the U.S. mail on the grounds that it can kill you. That is sheer hysteria. I think we should permanently close down the U.S. mail on the grounds that it has been making us sick for quite a while.

  Gene Weingarten

  Thinking, Sick, Mail

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• Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Silly, Empty Rooms, Laughing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive for commissions like this to spread hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their mind on public issues. Americans dare not be free citizens! This is the destruction of democracy.

  Florence Luscomb

  Women, Issues, Land

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• The European Union and environmental advocacy groups use global warming hysteria to advance their own special agendas. The European Union recognizes any significant reduction in CO2 emissions by the United States will significantly reduce its economic output, thereby bringing it closer to the inferior output of European nations.

  Jay H. Lehr

  Special, Environmental, Groups

  The Heartland Institute, November 19, 2004.

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• Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

  Eric Alterman

  Mad, Political, Suffering

  "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Women, Weapons, Tests

  Tennessee Williams (1976). “Three by Tennessee: Sweet Bird of Youth; the Rose Tattoo; the Night of the Iguana”, Signet Classics

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• Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.

  Martin Amis

  Sorry, Believe, Hypnosis

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.277, Vintage

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• Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

  Tim Sandlin

  Laughter, Mean, Tears

  Tim Sandlin (2010). “Social Blunders: A Novel”, p.241, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Impossible Things, Twenties

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• Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman who in the 1880s and `90s was a rabid hateful racists who whipped up hate and hysteria for his own political benefit.

  Keith Ellison

  Hate, Wings, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teenager, Self, Evil

  "Noam Chomsky: Truth to power". Interview with David McNeill, chomsky.info. February 22, 2014.

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• Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

  Andy Cohen

  Mom, Father, Smooth Jazz

  Andy Cohen (2012). “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture”, p.7, Macmillan

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• I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God?
  The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Seductive, Devil, Church

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• It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness.

  Rebecca Latimer Felton

  War, Anger, Fall

  Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”

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• I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It pissed me off so badly it haunted me for 25 years. But I had to wait to be a good enough writer to give Ida her voice back. And I had to go get my own first too. I not only know the case study inside and out, like most women, I lived a version of it. Maybe it's time for us to tell our versions.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Years, Voice, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe, AGW is simply a kind of collective hysteria with no basis in science.

  Roger Helmer

  Believe, Kind, Bases

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• or The Last Exorcism, I researched a lot of real exorcisms. I watched videos of exorcisms, I listened to tapes, and I read actual accounts of priests' logs. I also looked at a lot of the physicality. I would look into fits of hysteria and look at energies of people in manic, hysteric fits.

  Ashley Bell

  Real, People, Energy

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• The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

  Don DeLillo

  Rocks, Genius, Rock Music

  "Why we keep on rolling with Dylan". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 8, 2006.

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• The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

  Jim Rogers

  Bulls, Legs, Panic

  Jim Rogers (2014). “Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market”, p.46, John Wiley & Sons

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• The only difficulty is that I'm playing to two audiences, and it's too bad the noise detracts from the show, because it's a great show. I've seen my own self out there, and it's a very good musical show. Sometimes the show gets lost in the hysteria and sometimes it doesn't.

  George Michael

  Self, Two, Musical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm getting to the place where I can sort of go through airports now and there's no hysteria. I can go places alone even. But at the same time, if you get in trouble, you can find somebody in your age group who might recognize you.

  Bo Derek

  Airports, Age, Groups

  Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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