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• One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

  John Fund

  Dog, Blue, House

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• You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Knows, Ifs

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.173, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

  Euripides

  Depression, Mad, Wish

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• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Crazy, Intelligence, Genius

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• To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Get Well, Healing

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.23, Penguin

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• Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

  Rachel Carson

  Home, Circles, Enemy

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Math, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

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• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Inspiration, Perfect

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

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• I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

  Dylan Moran

  Trying Different Things, Bores You, Boredom

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

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• The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Running, People

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5637, Delphi Classics

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

  R. D. Laing

  Insane World, Break Through, Bipolar

  'The Politics of Experience' (1967) ch. 6

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