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• By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

  Gayle Forman

  Years, Too Late, Firsts

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• Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

  David Bowie

  Time, Sunrise, Battle

  Song: Aladdin Sane, Album: Aladdin Sane, 1973

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• Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

  Edna Ferber

  Philosophy, Food, Eye

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.2, Booklassic

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• I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Believe, Men

  "Credo". Book by Erich Fromm, 1965.

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• The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability -- consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Philosophy, Advice

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• War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to be insanne occasionally. We take turnes on who gets to be wich person

  Christopher Meloni

  Love, Funny, Secret

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• No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

  Al Smith

  Christmas, Sea, Santa

  Quoted in New Outlook, Dec. 1933

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• But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

  Apuleius

  Insanity, Existence, Blindness

  Apuleius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Apuleius (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics

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• There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane.

  Stephen King

  Happiness, Prayer, Dark

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• Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

  David R. Brower

  Moving, Land, Garbage

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• What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

  Norman Cousins

  Skills, People, Perspective

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• My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

  Barry Bonds

  Crazy, Trying, Life Is

  "In Interview, Bonds Says His Life Is a `Shambles'". articles.latimes.com. March 28, 2006.

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• My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

  Herman Melville

  Mean, Mad, Insanity

  Herman Melville (1983). “The best of Herman Melville”, Book Sales

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• The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Pet, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.44, New World Library

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• You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

  Robin Williams

  Crazy, Too Late, Tilt

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• In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Mad, Logic

  "Leo Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Important, Tasks, Use

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.39, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

  Julio Cortazar

  Beautiful, Thinking, Littles

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• Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating ... When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.

  Adyashanti

  Powerful, Real, Heart

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• This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Stupidity

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• The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Crazy, People

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.113, Hazelden Publishing

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• If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

  Hannah Arendt

  Exercise, Thinking, Should Have

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

  Joseph McCabe

  Rights, Years, Two

  Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

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• I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, People, Survival

  "Raids on the Unspeakable".

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