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• People think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness.

  Scott Lachance

  Hockey, Thinking, People

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• Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Love You, Love Is

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Alcohol, Liquor Funny

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  Horace

  Anger, Passion, Rage

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62, c. 20 BC.

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• The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Silly, Creativity, Ideas

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".

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• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drunkenness

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• Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Revolution, Reform, Doe

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.287, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Brain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Atmosphere, Would Be

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

  Larry Wall

  Crazy, Lying, Hands

  Usenet article <1992Jul2.222039.26476@netlabs.com>, groups.google.com. July 3, 1992.

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• You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

  Douglas Coupland

  Rainy Day, Weather, Mad

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• The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

  Dean Acheson

  Men, Mirrors, Ego Problem

  "History as Literature".

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• Meditation is the art of transforming madness into Buddhahood. Meditation is the art of taking you beyond logic and yet keeping your sanity intact. Meditation is the greatest discovery ever made, and I don't think there is ever going to be another discovery which can surpass meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Thinking, Discovery

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• Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Groups, Individual

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• The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Mean, Somewhere Else

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• This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego. And this never allows you even a glimpse of your real authentic self, and your life is there, in your authenticity. Hence, this ego only produces misery, suffering, fighting, frustration, madness, suicide, murder - all kinds of crime.

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Real, Ambition

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• My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Cells

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 3, sect. 6, st. 1

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• People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Travel, Crazy, Thinking

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• You call it madness, but I call it love.

  Don Byas

  Love, Wedding Invitation, Funny Love

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• The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Joy, Triumph, Delight

  Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (1973). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet”

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• I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology will remember my passion for the Eucharist from our classes. Blessed be God for this madness... We must live our commitment to society steeped in the Eucharist. We must take the Eucharist to the streets, both in the heart of the city and on the outskirts, to the poor neighborhoods and to hospitals... In order to obey the Resurrected Christ, I dare say with Pope John Paul II: 'Open wide the doors of your heart to the Holy Spirit.'

  Nicolas Cotugno

  Stars, Blessed, Passion

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• Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

  Frieda Lawrence

  War, Men, Faults

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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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• You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Soulmate, Stars

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• You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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