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• And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Cells, Years

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.

  Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Investing, Buying

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• The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Ordinary, Guarantees

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• In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Reflection, Reality

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• I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Abandonment, Impulse

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• As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Cat, Dark

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.

  Judi Bari

  Hands, People, Stopping

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• You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!

  Robin Williams

  Stupid, Needs, Enough

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• Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Disease, Caught, Contagious

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• Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

  Plato

  People, Would Be, Body

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• Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.

  Quincy Jones

  Life, Brother, Wall

  FaceBook post by Quincy Jones from May 22, 2015

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• I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely.

  Ronnie Radke

  Lonely, Feels, Stills

  "Song: 'The Westerner' ('The Drug in Me Is You')". 2011.

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• When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Perfect, Creative, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Interestingly enough, for me, a character like Captain Jack, you feel like you could just continue. The possibilities are endless and limitless. There is any possibility of madness and absurdity that could commence, so you feel that, with this character, you're never really done.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Captains, Done

  "Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Rob Marshall and Jerry Bruckheimer Interview PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Certainty, Uncertainty, Consequence

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

  Doc Brown

  Phones, Self, Cameras

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• I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

  Brigitte Bardot

  Opportunity, Mourning, Popularity

  "Brigitte Bardot on Cannes, celebrity and career". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2007.

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• The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Technology, Humanity, Survival

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• The people designing the weapons literally often didn't know how they were being handled in the field by the Air Force - and a lot of people in the Air Force didn't understand some of the dangers. There's a very strong element of madness in this.

  Eric Schlosser

  Strong, Air, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

  Jason Reeves

  Photography, Writing, Men

  Source: itcouldbemainstream.blogspot.com

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• I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.

  Wale

  Pain, Rap, Attention

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?

  Thomas Watson

  Disappointment, Home, Heart

  Thomas Watson, Hamilton Smith (2009). “Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson”, p.78, Scripture Truth

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• Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Procrastination, Next Day

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• When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

  Kevin James

  Dad, Entertainment, Nintendo

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