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• We choose mania over boredom every time.

  James Gleick

  Boredom

  James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage

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• There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

  Dave Pelzer

  Speak, Dave

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• An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Abnormal, Grandeur, Possessed

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Nathan Haskell Dole (1911). “The Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  A. Scott Berg

  Book, School, Night

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• My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Country, Zest, Careers

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• the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress

  Robert Musil

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Progress

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

  Felix Dennis

  Safety, Nannies, Modern

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• The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.

  Martin Gardner

  Memories, Abuse, Growing

  Martin Gardner (1996). “Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher”

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• If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

  Alain de Botton

  Baby, Disappointment, Children

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• There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

  Robert Southey

  Men, House, Physicians

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• I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Borders, Height

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought Everything Ecstatic was the happiest of them all - hence the "ecstatic" name. The whole concept behind that was total out-and-out euphoric mania. I think tracks like "Smile Around The Face" are the jolliest things I've ever done, really. But one of the things I like about my music is the fact that it's instrumental, so there are no lyrics to guide people.

  Kieran Hebden

  Thinking, People, Track

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  War, Trying, World

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Two, Needs, Panic

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• Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

  Chris Gethard

  Crush, Fun, Lying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

  Carrie Fisher

  People, Denial, Firsts

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Carrie Fisher". Interview with Nancy Tobin, www.bphope.com. February 1, 2010.

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• Vincent van Gogh was sane when he painted that piece of art, because when you you feel the mania and depression, you have all the heaven and hell your heart has ever experienced that you can tap into, to be able to create something that can last several lifetimes.

  Paul Dalio

  Art, Heaven, Pieces

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

  Kathy Reichs

  Strong, Thinking, Self

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Beautiful, Art, War

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• He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

  Anais Nin

  Soul, Body, Danger

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• What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money is to a Swiss, that is outdoor-life to an Australian. It is a noble mania, better than vodka, better than cool reserve, better than money.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Solitary Life, Fancy, Cherish

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2014). “Life of Charlotte Bronte”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having the courage to say certain things in people's faces and started to put these feelings on paper... Over the years, became a mania and then I never talk about for whom they are made.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Song, Writing, Years

  Source: www.enriqueiglesias.com.br

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• You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

  Catherine the Great

  Alcohol, Stronger, Want

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• America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!

  Bette Midler

  America, Caught, Caught Up

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