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• The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.

  Andre Maurois

  Wise, Winning, Men

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Gone, Fancy

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

  Martin Luther

  Doe, Different, Lasts

  "Whether Soldiers Can Also Be in a State of Grace". Book by Martin Luther, 1526.

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• I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?

  Doris Lessing

  New York, White, People

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. June 1999.

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• All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's "energy" used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started!

  Stephen Fry

  Reading, People, Energy

  "Stephen Fry — Last Chance to Think". Interview with Kylie Sturgess, www.csicop.org. 2010.

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• All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Communication, Writing, Cutting

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

  Camille Paglia

  Consciousness, Adaptation, Burden

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.44, Canongate Books

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• And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .

  Thomas Hobbes

  Taken, Men, Oracles

  Thomas Hobbes (1953). “Leviathan”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

  David Hume

  Followers, Influential, Hume

  "A History of Western Philosophy". Book by Bertrand Russell, Book Three, Part I, Chapter 17. Hume, 1945.

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• Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Evil, Intellectual

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.59, Basic Books

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• But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

  Anthony Trollope

  People, Facts, Trouble

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.281

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• In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.

  Maurice Ravel

  Art, Writing, Should Have

  "Ravel: Man and Musician". Book by Arbie Orenstein, p. 126, 1975.

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• There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

  Claud Cockburn

  Sheep

  Claud Cockburn (1956). “A Discord of Trumpets: An Autobiography”

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• Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Believe, Men, World

  YouTube Channel "Mark Bunker"/"Scientology: The Shrinking World of L. Ron Hubbard", www.youtube.com. February 04, 2007.

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• I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

  Wendy Cope

  Thinking, Lambs, Poet

  1986 'Triolet'. 0 See Lamb 486:25.

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• Mel Gibson will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Numbers, Max, Mad Max

  "How star of the stage Patrick McGoohan became a Prisoner of his own success after switching to the screen" by Marcus Dunk, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 15, 2009.

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• In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

  Roger Scruton

  Philosophy, Half, Conservative

  Roger Scruton (2009). “The Roger Scruton Reader”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

  Edward Bond

  Men, Awkward, Pity

  Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black

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• I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Believe, Men, Ponds

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.209, Penguin

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• Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.

  Ann Coulter

  Military, Soldier, Phony

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• Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

  Hugo Chavez

  Israel, People, Holocaust

  "Venezuela 'to sever Israel ties'", news.bbc.co.uk. August 9, 2006.

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• If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.

  Hugo Chavez

  Iran, Oil, United States

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• I get mad when people are against pot.

  Tre Cool

  People, Pot

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• Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.

  Glen Duncan

  Suffering, World, Tongue

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I recently went mad and spent 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stuff that makes you feel dead sexy knowing you've got it on. I've never worn stockings and suspenders, though. But I could imagine they'd make you feel really sexy worn under something formal. I think I'll save that experience and wear them under my wedding dress.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Sexy, Thinking, Knowing

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