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Hysteria

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Hysteria

"Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Hysteria

"Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity."

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Neil Gaiman Author
Hysteria

"There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Hysteria

"I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community."

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