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• That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

  Richard Pryor

  Be Good

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• My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Crazy, People

  "Titus / Locking Up Mom". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Different, Levels, Problem

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• I mean people are really crazy about minor decrements down. And then, if you act on them, then you get into reciprocation tendency, because you don't just reciprocate affection, you reciprocate animosity, and the whole thing can escalate. And so huge insanities can come from just subconsciously over-weighing the importance of what you're losing or almost getting and not getting.

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Mean, People

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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• If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

  James Cook

  Different, Definitions, Expecting

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• Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Depression, Men, Mad

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.135, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Holidays do bring out the craziness in everyone. This time of year tends to being out the insanity in otherwise normal people.

  Kristin Davis

  Holiday, People, Craziness

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  Abraham Maslow

  Curiosity, Insane, Self Actualization

  Attributed to Abraham Maslow in "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution" by Colin Wilson (p.155-156), 1972.

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• I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Different, Definitions, Results

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• You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.

  Frederick The Great

  Christian, Insult, Madness

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• Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

  Joseph Murphy

  Mean, Past, People

  Joseph Murphy (2015). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.175, Om Books International

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• ... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

  Mark Twain

  Degrees, Alphabet, Language

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.268, Univ of California Press

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• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Death, Night

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• One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Long Ago, Play

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Nov 20, 2013

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• Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

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• One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Friends, Country

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• I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Guy, Parent, Grew Up

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• What we've done with our modern food supply is absolute insanity. It's not even real any more. You used to be able to give a kid an apple and they would love it. Kids can't even taste apples any more. Apples taste like paper to kids now.

  Louis C. K.

  Real, Kids, Apples

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• You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Silly, Should Have

  Mark Twain (2014). “The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories”, p.180, Diderot Publishing

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• Genius is insanity right up until it works.

  Forrest Griffin

  Genius

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

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• You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.

  Jonathon Keats

  Engineering, Planets, Cases

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.

  Walt Dohrn

  Musical, Three, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

  Masiela Lusha

  Heart, Alphabet, Muse

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.

  John Lewis

  President, Interviews, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

  Tom Cruise

  War, Thinking, People

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