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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.


Hermann Hesse
The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.
Nick Harkaway
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan
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I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.
Kevin Systrom
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Success can create more madness than happiness.


Billy Ocean
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
Richard Dawkins
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I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I'm on tour. It's not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.


Harper Lee
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The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.
Steven Wright
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.


Andre Gide
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So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.
Sarah Polley
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
Alice Waters
Only one country and one system is unable to recognize our accomplishments: Russia. They make the lying claim that our road construction program is only on paper.
Fritz Todt
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If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
Alva Myrdal
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I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.
Mike Rowe
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.


Emile M. Cioran
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It takes madness to find out madness.


Lady Gregory
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
Indra Nooyi
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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Ivan Illich