William S. Burroughs
Writer
"We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse"
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Insane
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Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum."
Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"All I want to be is normally insane."
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"Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane."
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"The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society."
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"which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?"
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"Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane"
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"Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience."
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"The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully."
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"If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane."
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"When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion."
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"All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God"
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"The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane."
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"I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane."
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"Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane."
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"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."
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"Earth is the insane asylum of the universe."
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"What drives me to you, drives me insane."
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"It's an insane world, and I'm proud to be a part of it."
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"No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle."
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"Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."
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"I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane."
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"For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope."
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