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• The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

  Francois Rabelais

  Life, Death, Farce

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• Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

  Harry Nilsson

  Echoes, Mind

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• I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.

  Paul Watson

  Law, Humanity, Boundaries

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• Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Government, Years

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• I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

  Warren Zevon

  School, Order, Law

  Song: Mr. Bad Example

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• For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.

  Marilyn French

  Real, Home, Men

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• He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Done, Politics

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• I don't tend to work directly from life, except in trying to mimic or match the outlines of its insanity. In other words, when I live through something, I just try to say to myself, "OK, remember this - life is really this crazy or scary or beautiful or surprising - so try to 'get at' that in your stories.

  George Saunders

  Beautiful, Crazy, Scary

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Years, Decision

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

  Bob Dylan

  Stubborn, Politics

  Song: Up to Me, Album: Biograph

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• You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.

  Ken Kesey

  Character, People, Mad

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• War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?

  Robert Muller

  War, Degrees, Sacred

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• War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Epidemics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Stomach, Enormous, Temper

  "On Growing Up Tough". "Dolts and Love Cultists". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.

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• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  Fergie

  Running, Couple, Dvds

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• The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

  John Steinbeck

  New York, Thinking, People

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• (Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pride, Men, Confusion

  "The Man in the High Castle". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1962.

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• Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

  Norman Mailer

  Foundation, Mental Illness, Building

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• Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Mind, Warning

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• In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Feelings, Disease

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

  Billy Joel

  Philosophy, Sadness, Reality

  Song: Summer, Highland Falls

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• Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.

  Michael Jackson

  Romantic, Taken, Passion

  Song: Dangerous

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• There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Men, Answers

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.190, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker.

  Ray Davies

  Sleep, Might, Window

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• Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.

  Rose McGowan

  Fun, Thinking, Loud

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Jun 22, 2013

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