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• I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

  Ronald Fisher

  Believe, Teaching, Men

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• The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back to sanity and put the greater good ahead of self-interest. We need to fight very hard to create an environment out there that is more long term focussed and move away from short termism.

  Paul Polman

  Moving, Fighting, Self

  "Rio+20: Unilever CEO on the need to battle on to save the world" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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• True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.

  R. D. Laing

  Reality, Self, Ego

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• You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Children, Want, Way

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.157, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.

  Gerald May

  Peace, Lying, Ocean

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• Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

  Gene Spafford

  Common Sense, Guarantees, Computer

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• I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now." - Rio

  Tina St. John

  Long, Together, Wrecks

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• Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)

  Wendell Berry

  Grace, Comfort, World

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• For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments on waves larger than life. We do this because we know there is still something greater than all of us. Something that inspires us spiritually. We start going down hill, when we stop taking risks.

  Laird Hamilton

  Inspire, Surfing, Risk

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• It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?

  John Moffitt

  Giving Up, Our World, People

  "Quitting the N.F.L.: For John Moffitt, the Money Wasn’t Worth It" by Ken Belson, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2013.

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• Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Hero, Adversity, Humanity

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• I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much.

  Dianna Agron

  Fall, Character, Sunday

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• ... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Depression, World, Want

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1405, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity.

  Vernon Howard

  Happiness, Peace, Loneliness

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• For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.51, Broadway Books

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• There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

  Sidney Cohen

  Thinking, Circles, Insanity

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• If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Freedom, Hero

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• If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

  Stanley Rous

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  1952 Quoted in Bryon ButlerTheOfficial History of the Football Association (1986).

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• I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

  Julie Andrews

  Mother, Father, Character

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• When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

  Terry Goodkind

  Crazy, World, Pay

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “The Pillars Of Creation”, p.202, Head of Zeus

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• One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Choices, Guessing, Sake

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• If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

  David Levithan

  Reading, House, Romance

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• Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

  Norman Cousins

  Differences, Serenity, Silence

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• ...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

  Charles Bukowski

  Good Night, Sleep, Looks

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• Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is going to remain that way. Religion is something natural. To ask from where you come is relevant; to ask, 'Who am I?' is going to remain relevant always. But the modern mind has created a climate of atheism so you cannot ask such questions. If you ask, people laugh. If you talk about such things, people feel bored If you start inquiring in these ways, people think you are slipping out of your sanity. Religion is no longer a welcome inquiry.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Men, Thinking

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