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• Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

  Bobby Fischer

  Religious, Lying, Moving

  "Bobby Fischer Speaks Out!". Ambassador Report Interview with Len Zola, hwarmstrong.com. 1977.

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• Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

  George Weinberg

  Gay, Self Worth, Way

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• Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mad, World, Handicaps

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• And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Reality, Reason, No Reason

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

  Robert Boswell

  Covering, World, Definitions

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• You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Beneath The Surface, Knows, Fragile

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• The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Mean, Voice, World

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.45, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.

  Chris Hedges

  Wall, Insane World, Mass Culture

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• Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.

  Barbara Walters

  Crazy, People, Genius

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• I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Stupid, Silly

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• I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

  Ric Ocasek

  Thinking, Band, Sense Of Humor

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 7, 2006.

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• August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

  Henry Rollins

  August, Endurance, Tests

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• America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, America, Cost

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• There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

  Charles Bowden

  War, Believe, Two

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• The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

  Julie Powell

  Nice, Belief, Nice Things

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• The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.

  David Rosenhan

  Long, Insanity, Facts

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• I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.

  Lewis Black

  Echoes, Needs, Scream

  Lewis Black (2005). “Nothing's Sacred”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Mistake, Unhappy, Normalcy

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Sweet, Rocks, Balance

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• If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

  Sakyong Mipham

  Love, Kindness, Teaching

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• Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it.

  David Weber

  Honor, Balance, Insane

  "Field of Dishonor". Book by David Weber, 1994.

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• A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sense Of Humor

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.

  Allen Lacy

  Garden, Order, Choices

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• Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

  Zoë Heller

  Fall, Fighting, Lost Ones

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• There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

  Neil Gaiman

  Woods, Steps, Madness

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