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• There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

  Megan Gallagher

  Differences, Insanity, Bigs

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• It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, People, Impossible

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• World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

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• He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

  Ovid

  Sane, Simulate

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• Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Eccentric, Failing

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, Country, Flags

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.127, Counterpoint

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• Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.182, Crown Archetype

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• One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Oneness, Space

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.386, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

  John Astin

  World, Normal, Mental Illness

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• Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

  Jill Hennessy

  Running, Yoga, Findings

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• Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Growing Up, Book, Debt

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• I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

  Audrina Patridge

  Beach, Book, Trying

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• For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.

  Judge Reinhold

  Girl, Home, Kids

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• I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

  Wise, Smart, Yoga

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

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• You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

  Criss Jami

  Mom, Mother, Knuckleheads

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.119, Criss Jami

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• Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

  Wallace Stegner

  Giving, Green, Littles

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• When you inhabit any of these three roles, you're reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You're always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Inspirational, Loss, People

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• Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Pain, Tired

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.47, Random House

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• Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Mother, Baby, Children

  "How to give birth the Scientology way" by Carlene Bailey, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2006.

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• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.

  Teju Cole

  Mean, Self, Stories

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.243, Faber & Faber

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• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  Bel Kaufman

  Morning, Sleep, Writing

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

  Studs Terkel

  Peace

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

  Philip Larkin

  Affair, Poetry Is, Seeing

  "Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982". Book by Philip Larkin, 1984.

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• It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Fighting, Together

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.126, Vintage

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• In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Sleep, Giving

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